after this presentation you will never have sugar Addictions ever again on one hand people have this idea that you know sugar feeds your brain it gives you energy sugar is natural if sugar is so bad why is it in natural fruit but on the flip side I think most people know that we eat too much sugar and it's bad for us an average person consumes 74 teaspoons of sugar a day there are over 2 different names of sugar and hidden sugar that creeps into our food and you literally have to have a science degree or
a chemistry degree to understand some of these words but I wanted to ask this addiction expert about what sugar does to your brain what happens to the brain when you eat a lot of sugar well you get a surge of dopamine it's a pleasure neurotransmitter and it feels good but then those dopamine brain cells they're not designed to just keep pumping out that much dopamine and they get depleted they just they're exhausted so you eat the sugar but like 20 minutes later you're crashing okay and if you do that repeatedly over time the dopamine uh
receptor it collapses it stops working you know as a kid personally I ate so much sugar I would be up in the cupboards just eating straight sugar and I would have all different types of sugar from Candy to cookies to ice cream and I was a sugar fiend and sugar did make make me feel better it brought me up and then the more I ate sugar the more I wanted sugar and it kept going until at 28 years old I finally broke this habit so you start off eating sugar you feel better emotionally and then
you don't feel better emotionally and then you start craving sugar again and then you eat sugar and this whole cycle keeps going around and around I hear this story frequently I got to the point where I was going to get it I was eating it but I didn't like it that's depending see that's I need this substance to try you know the dopamine receptors are worn out but I'm going to keep trying to stimulate them to feel good wow but they're but they're collaps but they do come back what you're doing is I guess you're
trying to bring up the emotions that are basically tanked from eating sugar so you're trying to fix effect you just said that so well you said that so well the your brain is trained you believe because you've had this experience if I eat sugar I'll feel better but at some point when your dopamine receptors are collapsed eating sugar is not going to help and so eating sugar triggers wanting to eat sugar everywhere you go oh my gosh you have sugar take a look at all the holidays Halloween Valentine's Christmas Easter and then you have birthdays
work social events and I will say presently I am mentally rejected at every party that I go to no one wants to talk to me because I'm like the person that doesn't drink any alcohol doesn't eat any junk food doesn't eat any sugar won't take the cookie I've been outcasted but I still go and just kind of stand in the corner and watch everyone eating sugar the good news is you can reverse this very very easily and even within 72 hours that's 3 days you can put yourself into a state of burning fat it's called
ketosis whereas your physical body will not want sugar I mean you can use pure willpower saying I'm not going to do it but that doesn't usually work you need to get rid of the Cravings permanently and to do that you have to switch your fuel source you have to get your body burning fat and so for 3 days you're just going to have to cut out the carbs bring your carbs below 30 grams per day now that's one of the three things you should do number two we need to do something about your environment you're
going to have to talk to the other family members and get their agreement to either hide this junk or get it out of the house because you can't keep it in front of you all the time it's just too tempting and by the way when you're experiencing any negative emotion you're no longer in the present so you're losing control to a certain degree to a large degree if you're really going emotionally downhill and being in the present is very important to kind of being the driver's seat you're going to have to either bring Alternatives or
avoid some of these events and then number three instead of consuming sugar to bring you up emotionally you do other things to bring up your emotions that's really what you're after in the first place bringing yourself up emotionally either from stress or discomfort or from just boredom and these activities I'm going to share with you right now increase not just endorphins which actually kind of make you feel better and it gives you a sense of relief but also another hormone called oxytocin now typically when people think oxytocin they're thinking where a woman is breastfeeding and
that she has a spike of oxytocin it counters cortis Sal it is also considered like a what's called a love hormone because it increases when you're in love with someone and also when you're bonding with something some of the things I'm going to share will also increase dopamine without depleting the receptor of dopamine number one exercise exercise brings you up then we get into dancing and music and laughter long walks in a park in nature you have a lot of space very therapeutic another interesting thing about oxy toin is they found that donating to something
contributing to something gives you a sense of contribution helping another increases oxytocin I mean in a way it could be kind of selfish right you're donating your time you're helping someone to really for your own purposes well I think it's a win-win situation another thing that's very therapeutic I I've talked about this extensively in other videos instead of exercise physical work it's more productive it also involves taking your mind off something maybe a little bit more than walking on a treadmill ALS also any type of hobby that involves physical activity is very therapeutic doing these
additional things to bring you up will really put you in the driver's seat of these addictions if you fall off the wagon okay I would look at it from a different Viewpoint I wouldn't beat yourself up I would look at that from the Viewpoint of okay I just did an experiment to see what would happen if I went off the program wow that did not feel good personally I had to fall off the wagon many times before I learned from my own mistakes you know 90 3% of Americans have a over the age of 20
have a diagnosis a diet related diagnosis so this is now epidemic um my research says that most people have this it's like a Cravings disorder that they have it so severely that they're sick from it but they can't stop and also if you fall up the wagon and eat something that you probably shouldn't be eating add some protein to it add some fat to it to dilute the blood sugar Spike and minimize the damage now since we talked about diet if you want the details on how to do it I put that video up right
here check it out