You May Never Eat SUGAR Again after Watching This

warning you may never eat sugar again after watching this video or at least you'll dramatically cut down the amount of sugar that you consume and i think everyone knows that sugar is bad it affects almost every part of your body it causes weight gain but what i want to do is i'm going to just take one little thing in your body and talk about the effects of sugar on that one thing and that is going to be the red blood cells in fact the red blood cell is how they measure your blood sugars okay and how they even diagnose diabetes through a test called a1c a1c is a test that measures how much sugar is stuck to the red blood cell when the red blood cell or at least the protein part of the red blood cell called hemoglobin is exposed to sugar there's this chemical reaction or binding that occurs and that's called glycation so glycation is the amount of sugar that binds with that hemoglobin and then renders it inactive it can't work anymore and so based on how much sugar you have stuck to your hemoglobin can determine what your a1c is so let's say for example you have an a1c of 5.7 or less that would be considered normal and so the term 5.7 just refers to you have 5.7 of the total amount of hemoglobin in your blood that is stuck to this sugar molecule so if it's between five point seven percent to six point four percent you're a pre-diabetic and when it gets over six point four percent you're a diabetic now what does all this mean in simple terms well the red blood cell should normally be very very flexible it should be able to hold oxygen and carry oxygen to the tissues and it shouldn't be very sticky it should free flow and carry oxygen to the body and release the oxygen and then also pick up the co2 and bring that back into the lungs where it can be re-oxygenated so the more that this protein in your red blood cell gets stuck with the sugar the more your red blood cells are going to be stiff it's going to be very very sticky and it's going to form clumps and so that increases your risk of getting a clot but when the red blood cell becomes stiff it can't bend anymore so what happens is the blood flows through your arteries into smaller arteries and then tiny vessels called capillaries they get stuck okay and so we have the arteries that push the blood down to the end of your body like the toes and the fingers and that's where the capillaries are that then kind of goes in reverse and becomes the venous system the veins and then brings the blood back up through the lungs to start this whole cycle over so the arteries are filled with this red blood that's oxygenated and then as we use the oxygen the return blood flow to the veins are like a bluish red because they have less oxygen but if your red blood cell is not flexible if it's rigid if it's stiff it can't bend it gets stuck in the capillaries and then that starves off the tissues and this is why a diabetic starts noticing tingling in in the fingertips and usually the toes or the bottom of the foot they start feeling an abnormal uh sensation like numbness or even pain or burning what's happening is the blood cells are too stiff and they can't seem to get through the pipes and then we start off the tissues with oxygen we starve off the nerves with oxygen and they start to die that is the first change that happens on the road to necrosis or gangrene where the tissues actually die and when the tissues don't get oxygen and they start dying you start having an increase of unfriendly microbes it's called pathogens and unfriendly fungus and so when you have gangrene you have a lot of infection going on in the body because certain pathogens thrive in this low oxygen environment and this is where you get amputation when someone's a diabetic it starts off as peripheral neuropathy where the nerves are affected and then you get the ulcers and then you start getting necrosis or dying tissue and then gangrene and they have to start to remove different sections of your foot maybe starting with the toe or the ankle or whatever so the effects of this interaction between sugar and this protein really messes up the red blood cell it really brings down the red blood cells ability to carry oxygen it also reduces the volume of red blood cells so think about this if you're anemic normally people take iron or b12 but is it really going to work on top of this problem where your your diet is very very high in sugar actually creating or causing the anemia and then you take some iron is that going to really help you the answer is no or another symptom related to not being able to carry oxygen you're going to start climbing the stairs and getting out of breath easier you're going to have a hard time exercising because you're not going to have the wind or the oxygen and so you're going to get tuckered out really fast and so you're going to start taking things to stimulate your energy like caffeine and things to boost your energy when in fact you just need to fix the red blood cell so when these red blood cells can't fit through the capillaries the other tissue that affects is the eyes this is why you have a higher incident of visual problems diabetic retinopathy where you actually can go blind because you're basically starving off the nerves that the eye needs to function i mean think about what the retina is it's the extension of your brain it's all neurological tissue and so it needs to be fed oxygen through the vascular system but a lot of different problems with the eye are related to this issue of the sugar binding to this blood cell and the term for it is called glycation but you have negative effects to the retina okay so that's going to be you're not going to see as well you're going to have problems like glaucoma cataracts you're gonna have problems uh macular degeneration so here you are on a high carb diet and you start to need glasses because because you can't see so you just keep getting thicker and thicker glasses when in reality you need to change your diet now another area of the body that's affected is your gums um your gums can be more susceptible to getting an infection it's called periodontal disease okay that is another complication of this problem with the red blood cells you also have the kidney okay the kidney is very susceptible to this high level of sugar because think about what the kidneys are they are these mini little filters that are filtering blood they're like a capillary type tissue so we're going to get a lot of destruction in the kidney and the kidney makes a certain thing called erythropoietin which helps make red blood cells in your bone marrow so if we don't have enough erythropoietin then we're not going to generate the number of red blood cells i mean your bone marrow makes like 2 million red blood cells a second so it's like a machine that's cranking out these red blood cells so with the consumption of sugar you can't make those red blood cells at the right amount so you become anemic so you're always kind of tired and you're always kind of lacking oxygen especially when you exercise now the thing that makes your blood red is iron okay and so when you have this problem with glycation the damage causes the iron to be released from the red blood cell and then it interacts with the inside of the artery i mean think about when you expose iron to oxygen it rusts right so now this iron literally creates a rusting effect because there's oxygen going on and that causes little holes in your arteries okay so it increases the permeability of the artery and that's where you get the lesions and the start of plaquing and clotting and then what happens is the band-aid is your body heals it with cholesterol like a little band-aid and what do people do they go on a low cholesterol or low-fat diet is that going to help no because it's the high carb diet that's creating the whole thing in the first place so this is why the low fat diet of the low cholesterol diet is not workable for removing plaque in your arteries so now those are some of the effects that can be created and i'm just talking about the red blood cell now i want to give you a little more understanding of the significance of this a1c as it relates to your blood sugars a1c is actually a better test in testing your blood sugars because it gives you an average of your blood sugars for about three months okay and you can even buy uh home testing kits to measure your own a1c okay so i'm not endorsing any any units out there but you can look them up and buy a test to measure yourself but the problem with checking your blood sugars every so often is that it just shows a snapshot of what's happening right at that point the a1c gives you an average of everything so it's a much more accurate test for what's happening on average because let's say i don't know you check yourself on wednesdays and you always eat good on wednesdays but then the rest of the week is crappy you'll pick this up on the a1c test now a normal blood sugar should be you know roughly about 80 85 okay milligrams per deciliter okay and as far as a1c numbers go that would be a 4.5 percent a1c okay and so you can see that's much less than the 5.7 percent which is kind of the borderline between normal and pre-diabetes and so as the blood sugars go up a1c goes up so if your a1c is 7.0 percent um your blood sugars are going to be around 154 but if your a1c is like 13.5 your blood sugars are like over 400 okay it's very very high now what does this mean about the quantity of sugar that you're eating when you have normal blood sugars which is let's just say 80 okay 80 milligrams per deciliter that is one teaspoon of sugar which is roughly about four grams of sugar in all of your blood so we have about seven liters of blood which is about a gallon and a third of blood and all that blood one teaspoon of sugar will give you any reading of 80 okay which is actually very very small amount of sugar compared to the amount of sugar that an average person consumes an average person in america consumes about 60 to 65 of all of their calories carbohydrates and these carbohydrates eventually turn into sugar so that's a tremendous amount of sugar that is in our bodies and so if your blood sugars are 80 which is normal and you're eating a lot of sugar how can that be well it's because you have that hormone insulin that is coming in they're working like crazy to rip all that sugar out of your your bloodstream as fast as you put it in okay but that's going to catch up with you because eventually it's going to get tired the pancreas is going to get exhausted and then you're going to have less and less insulin and that's when the sugars start going higher but just because your blood sugars are normal does not mean that sugar is not affecting other parts of the body because as the insulin goes up and it rips out this sugar and puts it where do you think it's going it's putting in other places in the body it's it's turning into a fatty liver it's turning into problems with visceral fat now this other point i want to mention is one teaspoon of sugar is what's in all of your blood which gives you a normal blood reading of 80 milligrams per deciliter right well let's say for example your blood sugar is 126 okay that's definitely above normal how much sugar would is in your blood to give that reading well it's only one and a quarter teaspoons so it's not that much more that is raising it all the way up to 126 so what you have to realize is it doesn't take much sugar to raise your glucose and create a higher a1c so you might be thinking well i don't eat that much sugar just just a little bit each day well you're creating this effect to the red blood cell so i just wanted to increase your awareness but when you eat sugar and the following few hours or the day after and you feel kind of tired or your vision is off or you get moody now you know what's happening your red blood cells are becoming stiffened and they're being stuck together so i challenge you to do an experiment okay in the next week just cut out the sugar and notice how much more oxygen you have notice how much more energy you have because now the red blood cells are a lot more flexible they can fit through the capillaries they can actually deliver oxygen to your tissues which is a really good thing now if you haven't seen my video on diabetes which i've done a long time ago i think that would be a really good video to watch now check it out i put it right here you

Channel: Dr. Eric Berg DC

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Length: 13min 54sec (834 seconds)

Published: Fri May 27 2022