crash diet for picky eaters

hey guys, dr. josh axe here. welcome to ancient medicine today, so excitedyou're here with me. today we're going to be talking about theultimate villain when it comes to food and that is processed sugar, and how that candamage and affect your health. i'm going to be talking to you about the righttypes of sugars, the wrong types of sugar

crash diet for picky eaters, that you want to get in or out of your diethere on a regular basis, and also talk to you about how to kick your sugar addiction. hey, help me spread this word because thereare a lot of people that are still consuming sugar, many people who don't even realizethey're getting excess sugar in their diet,

and they need to learn these powerful principlesof how to heal the body naturally by getting excess sugar out of the diet. so help me spread this message, take a minuteright now, punch that share button, click that like button, let's teach the world howto use food as medicine. let's dive right in right now and talk abouthow to destroy your sugar addiction, and what sugar does to your body, which, it actuallydestroys some of your organs if you get too much. so number one disease that is related to excesssugar in your body is cardiovascular disease and heart disease.

now typically, when people hear sugar, theytend to think diabetes, right? excess sugar, diabetes, maybe weight gain,other issues, but think about this, when you consume excess sugar, it will stay in yourbloodstream. now your bloodstream, or your arteries, that'spart of your cardiovascular system, so that's why sugar can actually cause heart diseaseover time, heart attacks, high cholesterol, plaquing of your arteries, and high bloodpressure. but what happens is, if you consume too muchsugar, some of it stays in your sugar, hence the name elevated blood sugar is there's excesssugar staying in your blood. now when this happens over time, you haveexcess sugar in your blood.

that sugar, because it's not supposed to bethere for a long period of time, will cause inflammation. so anything that's in your bloodstream shouldn'tbe there, whether it's toxins, bad bacteria, excess sugar, those will cause inflammation. those start to cause inflammation of the arteries. what happens then, that inflammation, imagineacid eating a hole through something, so it starts to damage the arteries, then your liveractually starts producing cholesterol to go and patch, and repair, the damaged area causingcholesterol to build up over time. but this may or may not surprise you but sugar,one of the number one causes today of heart

disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure. so if you know somebody or love somebody,and they're struggling with heart disease-related issues, make sure you tell them get off thesugar because it's a main causative factor when it comes to heart disease. all right, number two here, nafld, that'snon-alcoholic fatty liver disease. now, we tend to think of the liver and gallbladder as dealing with fat, right? so your liver and gall bladder deal with fat,well, as i mentioned earlier, in relation to cardiovascular disease, if you consumea lot of sugar, your liver has to continue to produce cholesterol and over time.

it can overtax the liver, and really, manyforms of sugar your body really sees as a toxin. so your liver is responsible for detoxingnot just heavy metals, not just environmental pollutants and pesticides, and chemicals,and other things, in part, it's responsible for dealing with sugar, especially unnaturalsugar like high fructose corn syrup, and causes inflammation of your liver. so non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is reallya growing problem, especially in older men, it can be a major issue, but it could be anissue in women, even younger people, to where you start building up this excess fat aroundthe liver that will cause disease in the area

and affect its function. and your liver, again, is responsible fordetoxification, for healing and repair of your arteries, it's responsible for digestionof fats along with the gall bladder, so it is critical for so many different things. but sugar causes major inflammation of theliver, causing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, or liver disease. if you know somebody that's struggling withliver disease, make sure they know, get the sugar out of your diet. and by the way, if you're with me on thisand you know that far too many people are

getting excess sugar in their diet, take aminute right now, punch that share button, click that like button. let's help me spread the word, we are liveright now. leaky gut syndrome. now leaky gut is something i actually coveredin great detail in my book called "eat dirt." also, i've covered many of these topics onmy website, draxe.com. in fact, if you just look up "leaky gut" online,or "leaky gut syndrome," you'll probably find some articles i've written on this topic. but leaky gut syndrome is really the rootcause of a lot of disease today.

if you look back, if you go back over 2,000years ago, hippocrates said, "all disease begins in the gut." so if you're a person right now strugglingwith an issue such as hashimoto's disease or hypothyroidism, adrenal fatigue, anxiety,depression, children struggling with adhd, autism, asperger's syndrome, or a number ofother health-related . . . basic digestive issues today, skin issues like eczema andpsoriasis, malabsorption of certain vitamins and minerals, all of these are related toleaky gut. now here's how sugar causes leaky gut. your body, or these microbes that live withinyour gut, which are really an organ themselves,

so you have your gut wall, surrounding andliving in your entire gut are a lot of microbes. you've got good bacteria like probiotics,you've got bad bacteria, you've got certain types of fungi and yeast, and different thingsgrowing within our system that really should actually help us in digestion and absorption,and so many different things. what happens is, if you get too much of acertain type of sugar in your diet, and microbes can feed off many different things, microbescan feed off of different types of sugars, they can feed off of something called . . . well,certain types of fiber such as soluble fiber, also known as prebiotic fiber or starches. so different microbes like different things,so more of the beneficial microbes really

like to feed off of this type of fiber that'sfound in things like tiger nut flour and potatoes, and bananas, and things like that, so they'llfeed off of soluble fiber. well, what happens is, if you consume toomuch sugar, that's what yeast and candida, and certain types of microbes love to feedoff of. so if you're getting a lot of sugar in yourdiet, it will build up lots and lots and lots of yeast and candida, which will then actuallycause that whiteness on your tongue. it'll cause nutrient malabsorption and alsowill actually even produce poisons themselves that will start eating through your gut lining,causing leaky gut syndrome, which then can cause a cascade of other diseases, and overtime, even autoimmune disease.

so i know that was kind of a lengthy processi brought you through, but here's the fact. excess sugar intake, if you're consuming toomuch sugar or carbohydrates on a daily basis, it will cause leaky gut syndrome, which cancause autoimmune issues, chronic pain and arthritis, even start affecting the brainover time, and many other conditions. so if you really want to heal leaky gut, oneof those key steps is get sugar out of the diet. step four here, metabolic diseases. now this can be many things, oftentimes, thisis referred to as syndrome x, prediabetes or diabetes, or other endocrine-related diseasesas well, but metabolic diseases especially,

we'll throw diabetes as part of that, or syndromex as part of that, can be an issue. so i think that goes without saying, but diabetesis one of the fastest-growing diseases today, especially in kids. in fact, more people are getting it than everbefore and even certain issues related to dementia, alzheimer's, has even been calledtype 3 diabetes, and even been linked to metabolic disease. so really from protecting your brain, to yourpancreas, to all of your organs, you got to get the excess sugar out of the diet. a few other conditions, now this is a bigone, certain types of cancers can be fed by

too much sugar consumption in the body. one of the most popular diets that's growingout there today is the ketogenic diet, now the ketogenic diet is where you get rid ofthe sugar and your body stops burning sugar for energy. and because you only have about 5% of yourdiet sugar on that diet and you start eating a lot of fat, and small amounts of proteinas well. so really, your diet is almost all fat, someprotein, and a very, very small amount of carbohydrates. maybe it's 80% fat, maybe 15% protein, and5% carbohydrates, so it's a very low-carb

but what happens is, it turns your body intoa fat burner, where your body is no longer burning sugar for energy. it's burning ketone bodies, or fat, for energy. which overall has been proven to potentiallybenefit patients with cancer, people with alzheimer's disease, people that want to loseweight very quickly, diabetic patients, and a number of other people who are strugglingwith issues related to that gut-brain connection, or excess body fat there as well. but certain cancers we know feed off of sugar,so one of the greatest things you can do to fight cancer naturally is get rid of sugar.

now, a small amount of berries, let's saya bowl of blueberries on a daily basis, or a cup, that's going to be fine for most people,but in general, getting rid of all excess sugar, especially processed sugar, one ofthe number-one steps in fighting cancer naturally. by the way, if you've heard of the ketogenicdiet, or ever done it yourself, hey, let me know that right now on facebook live here,or youtube live, i'd love to hear from you guys if you've done the ketogenic diet. also, if you've heard or seen people thathave cut sugar out of their diet and it helped them with, maybe, cancer, or lose weight,or diabetes, or another type of disease, hey, i'd love to hear your comments right now here,live.

all right, depression. as i talked about earlier, there is this gut-brainconnection and two things to consider with excess sugar consumption. one is that affects your hormones. when you get insulin spikes, so insulin isa hormone that really helps support your blood sugar, but what happens is, you have somethingin your body called insulin receptor sites. and if you consume too much sugar, you literallystart to burn those receptor sites out to where now sugar stays in your bloodstream,and you have more of these spikes in blood sugar levels.

you've experienced this, right? you went and you ate a bunch of carbs, andyou know, an hour later, you were like in this carb coma, and exhausted, wiped out. you felt like taking a nap versus, hey, haveyou ever fasted? or you went and worked out this morning, orjust eating a really light breakfast on an empty stomach, you were just, like, completelyenergized. well, one of the things that can be linkedto depression clinically, and there's studies on this, is fatigue. if somebody is chronically fatigued or justgets tired, or you're experiencing that crash,

you can get moody, irritable, have a littleanxiety, depression. that's very common when you experience thoseglucose, or sugar, spikes there in the body, so that can be related to depression as can,as we talked about earlier, leaky gut syndrome. you consume too much sugar, bad microbes orbad bacteria build up in the body, you don't have enough good bacteria. when that happens, you have malabsorption,so you may not be absorbing vitamin b12 right, or magnesium, or vitamins and minerals thatactually help support your brain and mood. also, if you have leaky gut, proteins cancirculate, causing inflammation of the brain, leading to depression as well.

so listen, you want to fight depression, onebig tip is go sugar free. all right, let's talk about added sugar aliases. anything ending in o, so lactose, that's asugar from dairy, galactose is another sugar, sucrose, okay? staying away from those "-ose's" is a goodidea when it comes to getting rid of sugar. corn syrup, now i want to mention this, obviously,there's corn syrup, there's high-fructose corn syrup, the other thing is just sugarin general. i think that's obvious, but if something sayssugar or cane sugar, staying away from that as well in most cases.

also, we've got things on here like nectar. nectar, that can be different types of honey,the issue today is most honey is not real honey. in fact, 77% of honey you buy in the storehas no pollen, no nutrients, it's been highly pasteurized, so now it's going to have aneven harder effect on your blood sugar levels. malt syrup, molasses, i'd even add some otherthings to here, brown rice sugar, is another thing a lot of people will do is a lot ofthese syrups. not just that, maple syrup, there's anotherexample, so different types of syrups, you'll see here as well.

and coconut sugar, and people may say, "well,isn't coconut sugar healthier or maple syrup?" yes, they absolutely are, but you want tobe careful with all sugar in general. there are two types of sweeteners i'll mentionat the end that i think are better than others, actually, i might add a third one there. so here's the thing is, sugar is not evil,it's not the root of all evil. i know there's people out there that promotecertain diets that say, "all sugar is bad all the time." that's simply not true. but too much sugar absolutely is and for somepeople, you may want to go almost sugar free,

including low to no fruit, for a period of30 to 90 days to sort of help your body detox and transform the way your body's functioning,like a ketogenic diet. that's not a good diet to do for years ata time, but for a 30-to-90-day period, it can be absolutely transformative to many people'shealth. all right, also, so sugar addiction, let'stalk about how do you kick the sugar addiction? one of those keys is bouncing out hormoneslike insulin, ghrelin and leptin in the body. number one step, get more clean proteins inyour diet on a daily basis. this could be wild-caught fish, grass-fedbeef, organic chicken and turkey, organic eggs, bone broth, or a protein powder thatcomes from bone broth.

those are some of the best foods to kick asugar addiction, protein is going to help balance things out. indulge in fats, avocados, almond butter. as we talked about, wild-caught salmon, oliveoil, different types of nuts and seeds you can snack on, load up on the healthy fatsevery single day. coconut milk products, coconut oil, indulgein healthy fats is key to kicking that sugar addiction. the next thing here is up your fiber intake. fiber as well will help with balancing outthe good bacteria within your colon, which

can help fight sugar addiction. so again, more high-fiber foods, some of myfavorites are berries, like raspberries, are very, very high in fiber. green-leafy vegetables are high, cruciferousvegetables like broccoli and cabbage, and cauliflower. avocados are actually not only high in healthyfat, but also really high in fiber. so think, vegetables, nuts and seeds, andfruit, or berries specifically, those are going to be your highest fiber foods to geton a daily basis. then sour foods, embrace the power of sour,whether it's lemons, limes, grapefruits are

great. green apples, apple cider vinegar on yourfood, sauerkraut, doing anything that's that sour in nature reduces sweet and sugar cravings. and i would recommend this, if you want toget rid of sugar addiction, you want to eat a lot of sour and bitter foods, so sour andbitter help reduce those cravings for those sweet foods that so many people have hereon a regular basis. so here's what to do instead, if you wantto kick that sugar addiction. number one thing you can switch to is stevia,that's green-leaf stevia, doing that in small amounts on a daily basis.

now i want to mention this, i don't recommenddoing stevia in high doses, like every meal, all day long, because your body is expectingsomething sweet. but doing it subtly, on occasion, i thinkstevia's fine and good. the other one here is switch to manuka honey. now really, just about a loaded teaspoon ata time, and that's the thing here, listen, sweeteners are meant to be used sparingly,as it says in proverbs in the bible. doing some sweeteners, like a raw honey, reallyone of the most natural sweeteners out there, is fine in moderation for most people. getting fruit is similar to honey, really,in terms of what you're getting, or even using

dates as a natural sweetener, dates can bea good sweetener. so again, a little sweetness once a day ortwice a day is fine, you just don't want to go overboard. for most of us, we have so many carbs andso much sugar, that we are overloading the body, causing chronic inflammation that canlead to fatty liver disease, cardiovascular disease, leaky gut, depression, cancer, arthritisand chronic pain syndromes, and so many other chronic health conditions out there today. so stevia, manuka honey, probably two of thebest sweeteners to use on a regular basis. and again, manuka honey, just a teaspoon,a small amount there, is going to be one of

the most effective things you can do. so again, as we talked about, here are somediseases excess sugar consumption can cause. here are some things that are hidden sugarsources and i would also mention white bread, a lot of those, and wheat bread, doing toomany carbohydrates. remember, those turn into sugar over timeand to kick the addiction, follow these six steps as well. by the way, if you've enjoyed this live training,do me a favor, more people need to know about the damaging side effects of excess sugarconsumption. even healthy sugar such as cane sugar on aregular basis can even damage your body.

so take a minute right now, punch that sharebutton, click that like button, help me spread the word that food is medicine. also remember every week, 10:30 a.m., mondaythrough thursday central time, we're coming to you here with facebook live and youtubelive. so love that you guys can join me here todayand be part of this mission of teaching the world that food is medicine. hey, this is going to be dr. josh axe talkingabout how sugar destroys your body and some tips to kick the addiction.