warning this video may cause you to never want to eat sugar ever again so you might want to pause this video and get your last dose before I reveal some very interesting information and of course the more aware you are of what sugar does the less you're going to consume it I watch people all the time around me just consuming massive amounts of sugar and I'm like oh my gosh how could you possibly do that well it has to do with awareness they just don't know the effects now we probably all know the effects with
weight gain and dental decay and fatty liver and high cholesterol and acne and high blood pressure increase candida infections and lowered immune system etc etc but there's some other things that I want to share with you deep inside your body that you need to know about and it all relates to most diseases are metabolic diseases what does that mean metabolic diseases it has to do with your metabolism and when we're talking about metabolism we're specifically talking about this one structure in our cells called the mitochondria mitochondrial dysfunction is responsible for the majority of non-infectious diseases
dysfunctional mitochondria are what's behind cardiovascular disease cancer in fact the cancer you have normal cells that turn into cancer cells because of damaged mitochondria it's impossible to get cancer unless you have damage to the mitochondria Alzheimer's which is Type 3 diabetes kidney liver disease all of these General metabolic diseases if you look closely at what's happening as a Common Thread deep inside the cell we have dysfunctional mitochondria there are a lot of things that destroy the mitochondria but at the top of the list is sugar and foods that turn into sugar very quickly like refined
carbohydrates like starches breads pasta cereal crackers biscuits waffles pancakes muffins things like that and when we talk about sugar the majority sugar in the U.S is beet sugar and the majority of beets grown in the U.S are GMO so we not only have this refined sugar we have this GMO type sugar which has traces of glyphosate which is an herbicide which I'm not going to even go there but I just want to make you aware of that also the amount of fructose that we consume from drinks sodas high fructose corn syrup is a lot different
than glucose okay so we have fructose which is only metabolized by your liver all the other cells in the body can't metabolize this this fructose so when you're consuming large amounts of fructose you are overwhelming the liver and overwhelming the mitochondria deep in inside the liver and so if we compare fructose to glucose glucose is actually much better than fructose but you have to realize even table sugar is half glucose and half fructose honey the same thing and when we consume this refined sugar it's very very unnatural because we don't have the normal antioxidants that
come from like the natural sugar that with sugar cane or even that come with fruit when you consume fruits which is high in fructose so how does that relate to the mitochondria well this is what happens when you consume a lot of sugar glucose or things that turn into sugar what happens to the mitochondria is becomes damaged okay now the purpose of the mitochondria is to turn fuel into energy with the help of oxygen and so now with a dysfunctional mitochondria we now create a hypoxic low level oxygen State and from that starts to be
created other oxygen molecules that are very reactive to our bodies without getting too technical the category of these things are called Ross and I don't want to get into complexities but just realize that when you have a mitochondria that is not able to use the oxygen you start developing a lot of oxidative free radicals and a lot of things that create more damage and they're crated because we don't have that oxygen so their derivatives of oxygen that are highly reactive and damaging to your cells and so it's those oxidating factors that create the complications of
glucose they create the damage from diabetes for example they create mutations inside the DNA of the mitochondria mitochondria very interesting they have their own DNA and real quick the history of mitochondria is their bacterial derived a long time ago a bacteria morphed with cells to form this symbiotic relationship that apparently over a long period of time ended up in our bodies so the mitochondria the energy factories in our cells actually originated from bacteria and apparently we formed an agreement with them that they specialize in producing energy and we'll feed them okay we'll eat and feed
them and we'll give them a home but they give this this Focus Machinery to produce energy and they also have their own DNA but when we consume too much sugar we get damage of the mitochondria we get hypoxia lack of oxygen we get uh mutation within the DNA of the mitochondria we get decreased numbers of mitochondria we get a lack of fuel produced by the mitochondria starving off your cell cells as in Alzheimer's for example if the mitochondria can't work we can't produce fuel for the cells and what happens in cancer is the cell as
a survival mechanism gets its fuel outside the mitochondria in other places a different pathway it's very rudimentary it's very uh crude and there's not much energy generated from that and so the cancer cells have to compensate by hogging up as much fuel as they can and sugar is one of the fuels that they go after hardcore but there's a tremendous amount of oxidative stress they call it that's produced from these damaged mitochondria and the oxidative stress is kind of like this high level of oxidation with at the same time a low level of antioxidants and
this is why when you consume a lot of refined carbohydrates you're getting in this refinement process a lot of sugar but without all the protective mechanisms that normally come in nature like antioxidants that can normally counter all this oxidation and so that equals inflammation cell damage and especially damage to the mitochondria itself there's something else that's really interesting that happens when you consume sugar you get a decrease in what's called mitophy now what is mitophagy well there's a condition called autophagy which is the recycling of old damaged cells and that's a good thing because you
your body goes into the state where it can clean up damaged mitochondria and replace them with new mitochondria and then that that's a really good thing to prevent cancer and avoid all the complications that happen with damaged mitochondria but sugar inhibits that ability for your body to recycle mitochondria and maybe you've heard of the tests from diabetes it's called A1C right that measures the amount of damaged protein in your blood that's heat damage hemoglobin because when you combine all that high level of sugar with the protein you damage it that's called glycation so that glycated
protein that damaged protein can't be cleaned up as effectively with the sugar in your bloodstream so that leads to a whole bunch of problems and then now we have a hypoxic state in the mitochondria which increases the risk for getting cancer it now has to generate a lot of lactic acid that can build up in your cells you get a severe deficiency of thymine B1 now B1 is probably one of the most important nutrients in the mitochondria to allow everything to work correctly the more sugar you consume the more B1 or thymine that you need
and so when you consume a lot of sugar you deplete your B1 reserves and what comes next is is devastating especially in the case of a diabetic their complication is peripheral neuropathy mainly due to this B1 deficiency that creates a lot of nerve damage and so this is why one of the great remedies for peripheral neuropathy which is the bottom of your feet becoming numb or tingling or burning or your hands is taking B1 B1 will pretty easily resolve that that condition or at least that complication from the high levels of sugar but also with
a B1 deficiency there's a lot of other problems that occur too an anxiety state a lot of nervous tension a lot of excessive thinking insomnia nerve damage in other parts of the body and also damage in certain parts of the brain that have to do with memory and then another thing that gets depleted in the mitochondria from eating a lot of refined sugar is zinc and zinc is also needed to make sure your mitochondria are are bulletproofed or protected and without zinc you get dysfunctional mitochondria so you just might want to think about the next
time you eat that Krispy Kreme donut or that candy bar you have to just be aware of what the sugar does to the deeper mitochondria in the cells that sets your body up for a Cascade of issues down the road so the question now is what can we do to improve the mitochondria well the number one thing you should do is go on a low carb diet it's called the ketogenic diet cut out sugar cut out these refined carbs you're going to feel better immediately and you'll probably find that you won't be depleting your B1
anymore or your zinc anymore and also there's other nutrients that you won't be depleting anymore too the next thing is exercise especially High intense interval training but other types of exercise will also be beneficial to boost your mitochondria and this brings up another point about athletes that are doing all sorts of like long distance marathons or triathlons they typically consume a lot of carbohydrates and a lot of sugar and you might be saying well how come they're able to do this with all that Sugar well exercise can overcompensate and exercise alone stimulates the mitochondria exercise
protects the mitochondria now of course I don't recommend that as you know something that you can do to continue to eat sugar because I know a lot of athletes that when they consume the sugar they have a lot of side effects they have a lot of problems and complications but the point is that because exercise strengthens the mitochondria it tends to nullify some of the complications from the high level of sugar now you might also be thinking well what about the people a hundred years ago they were a lot healthier than we are now and
yes they were healthier but they weren't a lot healthier but I will say in the last probably 40 50 years the amount of sugar has increased the amount of fructose has increased the amount of snacking has increased the amount of added sugar has increased and all that has been devastating but think about even like several thousand years ago where people eating healthier back then not necessarily they've extracted these mummies and they've looked at the teeth and the arteries and the bones of certain mummified bodies and they had periodontal disease they had cavities they had problems
with their teeth problems with arthritis and they consumed a lot of flower products breads so this is not necessarily just a new thing that's been going on for a long time now another thing that can help improve your mitochondria if we were to look at like cold water immersion or cold therapy it's the cold therapy okay they're very uncomfortable taking the cold shower or the cold bath immersion that can stimulate your mitochondria way more than heat therapy or saunas can simply because of how uncomfortable it is and also how our bodies were developed to survive
during winter time and actually increase more mitochondria when we get cold nowadays everything's become very very passive and comfortable okay we get to eat to 24 7 we get to stay in a really nice environment inside our homes not out in the sun and by the way being exposed to the sun does increase your mitochondria and not eating so frequently as in fasting greatly stimulates your mitochondria certain epigenetic shorter stressful things can improve our mitochondria like going into a higher altitude or training in a higher altitude can stimulate your mitochondria to adapt and become stronger
so a certain amount of stress is good chronic stress can definitely affect our monochondria in a negative way insomnia lowers the mitochondria in our body a good night rest can enhance our mitochondria because we recover and of course alcohol inhibits the mitochondria but on the flip side you can eat certain things that will increase mitochondria like vital nutrients there's a lot of different plant-based chemicals Resveratrol quercetin the phytonutrients in green tea and garlic can all boost your mitochondria not to mention the dependency on just basic nutrients that support the mitochondria there's this thing in the
mitochondria called the Krebs cycle that maybe you've learned about and I'll guarantee rarely anyone understood it back then you'd have to really play around with it to really the grasp or wrap your wits around it because it's a very complex Machinery but the Simplicity is your body's turning food into energy using oxygen and to do that process you have to go through a bunch of steps and your body requires B1 B2 B3 B5 and coenzyme Q10 and other nutrients but those are some of the basic nutrients that support the mitochondria so if you made it
this far you now have more Awareness on what sugar does to probably one of the most important parts of your cell called the mitochondria and getting off sugar is going to be extremely therapeutic to your overall health because it's something that you can do to actually create Health to help bolster the mitochondria versus in our Health Care system which I'm still trying to find the health in it because we don't really create Health it's all about taking all of these diseases that are really metabolic in origin and treating them with drugs which inhibit the function
of your mitochondria now since we're on the topic of sugar I've created a lot of videos in sugar but if you haven't seen this one I think you're going to find it very interesting I put it up right here