In this video, you'll discover what happens to your body when you stop eating sugar for
just 10 days.
There's no doubt that people love sugar. I mean, when we think of sugar, we think of
fun, family times, fun family events, getting together for birthday parties, holiday parties,
ice cream, cake, pie, soda. I mean, we think of all these things, but the problem is, is
that it's estimated that people are consuming sugar in complete excess. The average person
is consuming over 150 pounds of sugar a year. Now, when we look back 20, 30, 40, 50 years
ago, people weren't even consuming half of this amount of sugar, so it's really devastating
as to what it is doing to the human body. So that's why we're going to talk about what
happens if you stop eating sugar for 10 days. I'm going to give you a 10-day sugar challenge,
so stick around to the end of this video.
But before we get started, I'm Dr. Zyrowski and welcome to the channel. If you're new
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Let's go ahead and take a look at the problem with sugar. Okay. Like I said, sugar is associated
with fun family events. I grew up in a family that was in the grocery industry and sugar
was a staple part of our diet - drinking soda every day, lots of cakes, ice creams, those
types of foods that of course are not healthy for you at all. And the problem is that they
lead to disease, serious disease. They are associated with so many problems like diabetes.
There's a lot of people out there suffering from Type II diabetes and of course it's a
result of too much sugar, too long causing insulin resistance, and many people have prediabetes,
which is estimated statistically within five to 10 years. Most of them end up as full-blown
Type II diabetics and this is a growing issue. Sugar is the problem here.
Obesity is another issue. People who have belly fat that they're trying to get rid of.
I mean if you're obese and you're consuming sugar, it's quite obvious you need to cut
back on it in order to start working your weight loss goals in the right direction.
But if you have belly fat, there's so many people who just have belly fat and of course
this increases your risk of disease and so they have this belly fat and they can't get
the rest of it off because they can't give up the sugar.
Next is cancer. A lot of people are suffering from cancer these days. One of the things
about cancer cells is sugar feeds cancer cells. No sugar starves cancer cells. This is why
the ketogenic diet is so effective at being an anticancer diet. It's only people who are
suffering with these issues do very well on the ketogenic diet.
High cholesterol and heart disease causing just an absolute mess when it comes to your
heart health. Now this heart, which is beating 24 hours a day, keeping you alive, working
so hard, does not do well with sugar. The sugar causes inflammatory problems in the
arterial walls, breakdown in the arterial walls, high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
and ultimately leads to heart disease.
Inflammatory conditions is another thing that sugar is very much associated with. Whether
you're talking about like fibromyalgia, whether you're talking about arthritis or any of these
inflammatory diseases like people are facing - diabetes, high cholesterol issues, heart
disease, and also people who are suffering from cancer. I mean this is a sugar related
problem and a sugar associated problem. Now when you have inflammatory conditions, it
also equals pain. So, if you're someone who's in chronic pain, if you start giving up the
sugar, the joint pain starts to go away, the inflammation starts to go down, and of course,
you start feeling a lot better and you set yourself up for a preventative model for longevity.
Also, neurological conditions, whether you're talking about Alzheimer's, dementia, I mean
you name it, this really the sugar breaks down the nervous system causes the brain to
have changes in it, causes brain degeneration. It is not good. And I even have family members
who have gone through this and it's a horrible thing to see. So, we don't want to be consuming
a lot of sugar because it causes neurological disorders.
Now, let's go ahead and talk about withdrawal symptoms because you might think to yourself,
well, I'll just get rid of the sugar. I'll cut it out. But it's not that easy because
sugar has an enormous impact on the body, not only in a negative way, but also in an
addictive way. We look at sugar, it actually acts on the body like very strong drugs do
like cocaine and heroin. And so, what happens is when you consume sugar, basically it releases
a feel-good response. This is a system in the brain called the brain reward cascade
system. This brain reward cascade will go ahead and release dopamine in response to
you consuming sugar and then it makes you feel good. It makes you feel happy. It makes
you feel… it's a pleasure hormone basically. And so, what happens is when you're not getting
it, you feel really crummy. So, it's the same reason that people who are on heavy drugs
have a hard time getting off of it.
The people who aren't sugar have a hard time getting off of it. It's going to cause problems
like sleep issues. So, when you go and just cut sugar out altogether, it's going to cause
sleep issues. You're going to find yourself having some issues with being really fatigued,
maybe falling asleep really quickly, but then waking up throughout the night as it's going
to really mess with your sleep rhythm.
It's going to cause horrendous cravings for the first couple of days, usually about three
to four days. According to the Cleveland clinic, about 10 days in, after that 10-day mark,
there is no trace of any type of cravings at all. So, we want to make sure that we're
aware. And when we are aware that it will cause these problems, it helps us to not go
back because if we just go and cut sugar out and all this starts to happen and essentially
you go, oh man, like I need that sugar, and so you go and grab a soda and then of course
the whole thing's ruined.
It causes anxiety even can cause depression for some people. Fatigue, both physical and
mental fatigue. A lot of people are going to really crash when they cut sugar out because
what they've been doing is they've been constantly in a false way, stimulating their body's energy
system in order to make it through the day. This is why energy drinks are so popular.
So, when we cut out sugar, we're going to have a little bit of fatigue issues. Some
people will experience nausea and then lightheadedness and also dizziness is something that people
experience too. Because you have so much blood sugar instability, you go from a hyperglycemic
state to a hypoglycemic state and until the body can really balance this out, then you
end up with this issue.
Taking things like B vitamins helps, electrolytes help, but we have to be aware that these are
going to be issues that we will face during this time.
Now the other thing that we have to consider too is that if we want to cut out sugar, you
want to do this sugar free 10-day challenge to cut all the cravings and get away from
sugar completely. One of the things we have to do is get rid of it, get it out of our
house because if these cravings pop up and you have access to it, you are highly likely
to go after it. So, we want to make sure we just clean it out of the pantry, get it out,
and don't start the 10-day challenge, the 10-day sugar free challenge until you have
the sugar out of your reach because we don't even want to have access to it.
Now the other thing we have to do is we have to look at all the benefits that you get from
sugar-free. We want to talk about what happens to your body in 10 days if you just get rid
of sugar. Weight loss is a major one. Now, you're going to get a ton of weight loss because
as your blood sugar goes down, you're going to flush a lot of water weight. My brother
was drinking a ton of soda on a daily basis and he cut out the soda and he couldn't believe
how much weight he lost. He lost like 20-30 pounds in a very short period of time, and
so you're going to get a lot of weight loss during that time because you're going to start
losing a lot of water weight, and so that's really positive. Most people are looking for
that.
You're going to also learn to enjoy food differently. This is one of the biggest things I noticed
when I went sugar-free is I really just started to enjoy foods for the flavor that they had
to offer. When you are addicted to sugar, you enjoy foods for the flavor of sugar. The
more sugar, the more you like foods. I mean you could take probably the worst tasting
food and put a bunch of sugar in it and all of a sudden you would like it. So, you learn
to enjoy spices and herbs and different flavors and really have a new appreciation for food
and I think that's really important because your relationship with food is very important
when it comes to your overall health. When it comes to defeating problems with getting
rid of belly fat, defeating obesity, your relationship with food is one of the reasons
you end up in these different problems. There are so many people out there that are unwilling
to break bad food habits, bad food relationships, and that's why they're not able to ever have
true health.
And so, you're going to get less cravings during this time. When you're on that sugar
cycle, it is a very, very much a negative feedback cycle and it's very frustrating because
the more sugar you do, the more you want, and then it just ends up like creeping into
your life and next thing you know, it's just pretty much consuming you. I mean, as someone
who eats healthy and then you go through some of the holidays and some of these foods that
you eat aren't the typical foods and maybe had a little bit of sugar, but all of a sudden
you notice that it's very easy for you to want more and more. And it just is this cycle
that finally you have to realize what's happening and go, oh my gosh, no more. So once you go
in, cut the sugar cycle and you get that out of your system, then the cravings start to
go away and you don't have problems with food cravings. You're not getting hangry all the
time. It is a much better way to live and you're much, much more comfortable once you
break those cravings.
Better concentration - a lot of people have this problem where they have concentration
at peak in the morning after they drink their coffee. Noon comes around and they just crash.
They can't even think, they can't focus. It's a problem with blood sugar instability. So,
when we cut out the sugar and we start burning fat for energy as an alternative fuel source,
the healthy alternative fuel source for the body, essentially what happens is your concentration
goes through the roof. You're not crashing all the time, you feel so much better.
You also have decreased pain because I said the inflammation goes down, the pain goes
down.
Brain stability. When I say brain stability, you can set forth huge inflammatory reactions
in the brain, in the nervous system when you're consuming a lot of sugar in low quality foods.
And so not only do we want to increase our concentration and our focus, but we also want
to have brain stability where we're not having bouts of anxiety, bouts of just literally
having no brain energy at all. If we want to increase our brain health, cutting out
sugar is very important.
And then of course improve organ function. Now, sugar is very hard in the organ systems.
It's hard on the liver. That's why so many people are having fatty liver issues because
of the huge consumption of sugar. And then the people who are suffering from like diabetes,
insulin resistance, it's very hard on the kidneys. So, if we want to improve organ health
and also cardiovascular health, we want to make sure that we are cutting out sugar. So,
what I challenge you to do is cut out sugar for 10 days. According to the Cleveland clinic,
according to much of the research out there, once you cut it out for 10 days, the cravings
are gone. There is no excuse to go back to it unless you actually make the choice to
do so.
So, put in the comment section below if you're going to participate in this sugar free 10-day
challenge. Give this video a thumbs up and share it with your friends who also need to
participate in this and know the devastating effects that sugar has on your body. Then
lastly, check out this video over here because it's going to teach you how you can follow
a ketogenic diet that is completely sugar-free and is going to promote incredible health.
So, you're going to have less hunger, less cravings. So that's one of the big things
that starts to pop up. But just notice that like two meals are set…