From the Desk of Carolyn Dean MD ND
Here’s a little science snippet for you from Exposing Sugar Toxicity, where I do my best to detail all the clinical aspects of how sugar impacts our cellular health. Basically, there is no nutrition in sugar, just calories or energy equivalents. This is where the term “empty calories” must come from. Here’s an early study that opened my eyes. In the 1940’s, dentists Price and Pottinger noticed how our devolving diet was changing the quality of people’s teeth. Ergo lots of dentists’ visits to fill sugar-drilled cavities.
They also conducted a study of 900 cats (sorry cat people – but there was no dissection!) being fed different diets for several generations. The group on the refined, cooked food there were no live births after the third generation! That’s shocking to me and probably is to you too. From the second generation on, they noted an increased incidence of allergies, arthritis, eczema, heart disease, cancer, obesity. Does that sound familiar and comparable to our present human population.
We are not cats!
Yes, obviously you can’t compare humans to cats, but this is the kind of information can give us some clues to help comprehend what’s happening to the health of our current population. I find this study very foreboding. If cats stop procreating on a processed food diet, what does that mean for humans? Is it possible that fertility issues in this generation are linked to generations of unhealthy diets?
The fact is that we are in the third and fourth generation of humans living on a cooked, refined and increasingly ultra processed food diet. In the 1980s, the children being born into my medical practice had a notably higher incidence of allergies and illnesses than did their parents or grandparents. We have to admit that this can be partly due to the accumulative effects of the inferior diet ingested by each successive generation.
That’s from one can of cola!
Have more soda and some other highly processed junk food and do this repeatedly and you overwork the pancreas and the adrenals, so they no longer function normally. That leads to insulin resistance. That means the cells resist reacting to insulin and sugar can’t get into cells to create energy. The high levels of sugar float around the blood stream creating adult-onset diabetes and potential eye, kidney and heart damage.
All this sugar processing robs the body of its nutrients!
Your body on sugar is exhausted because the processing of this non-food and the chemical reactions required deplete your nutrient storehouses. If you had a great day of nutritious meals yesterday but a sugar-filled day today, know that yesterday’s nutrients are being used up to process the sugar you ate today instead of going into the cells to make energy, proteins, neurotransmitters and hormones.
And furthermore, this is why you have food cravings! Let me repeat, when your nutrients are being used up to process sugar, they aren’t being used to nourish YOU! You’re literally starving for nutrients, so your cravings kick in and does your brain think you need more broccoli? No… it wants more sugar.
What’s even worse about sugar? Sugar molecules are similar to Vitamin C molecules and they both travel through the body using insulin. Yes, Vitamin C is transported by insulin. Who knew… I’m guessing your doctor didn’t know or they’d have told you to avoid sugar.
Sugar suppresses your immune system.
This means, excess sugar uses up insulin and stops vitamin C from getting to where it is needed in the white blood cells to boost the immune system, and in all body cells to act as metabolic antioxidants. Now that’s scary. So, think of how often you or your kids get sick around sugar-laden holidays. When people are getting together, carrying various viruses and pathogens, if you’ve been eating sugar, it’s keeping necessary Vitamin C from getting where it needs to go to fend of these offending bugs.
In fact, sugar depletes many essential enzymes that are crucial to controlling free radicals in your cells, tissues and organs. In fact, refined sugar is depleted of important minerals. Sugar makes vitamin C very scarce, and we also lose about 90% of chromium, manganese, cobalt, copper, zinc and magnesium making sugar truly devoid of nutrients and resulting in a population of vitamin and mineral deficient humans. Such mineral deficiency is responsible for a host of disease symptoms, including heart disease, depression, and arthritis.
What you can do
Stop eating added sugars and call our wonderful Customer Experience Team to help build a healthy protocol that you can depend on. That protocol will often include our picometer magnesium, multiple mineral combination, methylated, food-based Bs, and vitamin C.
More Sugar Blogs to Come! But in the meantime, be sure to pick up your $0.99 Kindle copy of Exposing Sugar Toxicity on Amazon.
Carolyn Dean MD ND
The Doctor of the Future
