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now there are several really interesting

facts about sugar that you probably

never heard about before and so I want

to Dive Right In and explain these to

you now the make or break amount of

carbohydrate to get into ketosis is

roughly around 50 grams per car per day

now that’s a rough estimate it could be

a little bit more could be a little bit

less depending on your metabolism but

what does this mean 50 grams of

carbohydrate is it 50 grams of sugar is

it 50 grams of net carbs which is

basically the total carbs minus fiber or

is it just 50 grams of total

carbohydrates it’s a bit confusing for

people so from my viewpoint it should be

50 grams of net carbs so you’d minus the

fiber but there’s a huge difference

between consuming 50 grams of sugar okay

carb or just 50 grams of just net carbs

in general but of course you might have

this question like if it’s not sugar and

it’s not fiber what type of carb is it

and the answer for that is a starch and

a starch is just a series of sugar

molecules connected together but if we

look at 50 grams of carbohydrates from

sugar

that would be equivalent to a 12

ounce soda specifically the orange soda

that has like roughly about 49 to 50

grams of pure sugar right that’s the

carbohydrate that’s in that now if we

compare that to 50 grams of net carbs

from vegetables Like Salad carbohydrates

it’s a little bit more than 12 ounces

it’s actually 42 cups of salad which is

3125 grams so when you’re going on keto

when someone says 50 grams of carbs and

you’re going to get this from Orange

Soda it’s going to go in there very very

fast and Spike your blood sugars and

it’s going to definitely create a dent

into your ability to get results versus

if you have this other thing which has

so much fiber it goes into your body

very slowly breaks down

you’re going to get into ketosis much

better so it’s not just 50 grams of net

carb it is the quality of carb and this

is why I don’t even recommend counting

vegetables as your carb especially

salads the next thing I want to talk

about is when you consume sugar okay

it’s going to elevate your blood sugars

but when you check your blood sugars

what type of sugar are they measuring

because most sugars really come at kind

of a ratio of a 50 50 split from glucose

and fructose

so that would be table sugar beet sugar

honey that would be coconut sugar the

sugar and fruit but it’s roughly like a

50 50 split between glucose and fructose

now when you get your blood sugars

checked they’re going to look just at

the glucose right because fructose

doesn’t really increase the blood sugars

by that much maybe a small percentage

it’s mainly the glucose so when you

consume like a hundred grams of table

sugar

only half of that is going to end up as

raising your blood sugars the other half

goes right to your liver and we’re

talking about fructose and on the

glycemic index which is an index of how

fast glucose kind of raises your blood

sugars fructose is very very low okay

and glucose is 100 it’s very very high

and when you combine these two as table

sugar or even honey or other sugars even

high fructose corn syrup that fructose

is going to bring it down on the

glycemic index simply because it’s not

going to end up in your blood sugars you

might think wow fructose is not going to

end up in my blood sugars that’s a good

thing I should consume more fructose

but here’s what you might not realize

the only organ that can really deal with

this fructose is the liver

and the liver considers fructose almost

identical as alcohol in several aspects

number one in turning the liver into fat

in producing triglycerides and

bad cholesterol and I’m talking about

the small dense LDL particle size and

the consequences of fructose as far as

free radical damage and inflammation to

the liver and when that occurs you start

developing insulin resistance and that

can even turn into diabetes way more

than glucose okay so that’s interesting

so even though fructose doesn’t raise

your blood sugars it creates other

issues now there’s also an additional

sugar

called the Gava nectar which is not a 50

50 split of fructose and glucose it’s

like an 80 20 split eighty percent of it

being fructose and 20 being glucose so

agave nectar has the most fructose of

anything out there more than high

fructose corn syrup and so what does

that mean it means that it creates more

liver problems than other types of sugar

even though they’ll claim that it’s good

on your blood sugars well now you know

why now if you look at the sugar

association website okay

they talk about the benefits of sugar

they talk about sugar is not that bad

they talk about the sugar molecule in

fruits and Natural Foods being identical

to sweets and refined sugar it

Etc so most of the sugar that’s used in

the U.S is from beets I think it’s like

90 percent of course it’s genetically

modified unfortunately so there’s

traces of glyphosate but the way that

they turn beets to sugar is not as

simple as they might say on their

website like a three-step simple process

where they’re just like oh yeah we’re

just processing these sugar in a few

simple steps right it goes through some

major steps the production of B trigger

starts with washing and slicing the

sugar beets into little pieces and then

it passes through a diffusion Tower it’s

separated by extraction with an addition

of hot water into the juice and the Beet

pulp the pulp which is rich in nutrients

is dewatered and filtered so they

basically take all the nutrients out and

then that beet pulp is commonly fed to

cattle and then it goes through a liming

process where they’re adding lime and it

goes through a demineralization process

to remove minerals proteins pectins

salts in the coloring agents and then it

goes through several other steps to form

these crystals so as you can see it’s a

huge refining process and the end

product of that sugar glucose is not the

same as the sugar that you would get

from vegetables and fruits because it’s

refined it’s been processed you’re

taking all these things out of this

natural product and you’re refining it

and you have to realize that it’s all

these other things like the nutrients

and the phytonutrients

that are going to protect you from that

sugar and that fructose sugar on your

liver and your cells the antioxidants

protect you against all this free

radical damage in your cells so it might

sound like it’s the same thing but it’s

not it’s not the same thing because

you’re consuming this isolated molecule

from a complex food and in large amounts

our bodies uh were not designed to

consume the quantities of sweets long

ago maybe we got some honey occasionally

if we’re lucky and then also we were

able to get some fruit off the tree but

not near

of the sweetness that fruits are grown

now and in the past they would always be

seasonal it wouldn’t be all year round

so it’s very very unnatural for our

bodies to consume fruit and honey and

sweeteners every day of the year but it

was a survival mechanism because sugar

converts into fats fairly quickly if you

eat a large amount of it and that fat is

a survival mechanism due to the extra

fat that we would gain on our

midsections now people don’t look at

people that are overweight as them

surviving better but in the past the

people that had extra weight survived

longer than the skinny people so that

was a really positive survival thing

that doesn’t really correlate to

nowadays this is why our bodies love

sweet Foods because there’s pleasure

involved because of the survival aspect

the problem is now it’s not a survival

thing it’s an anti-survival thing and so

a little bit of Honey a little a little

bit of fruit might be okay but not at

the amounts that we’re doing nowadays

the other interesting thing about

glucose is that the chemistry is very

similar to vitamin C you might have not

known that before either

which means that they’re competitive to

a certain degree if you’re consuming

sugar

your body will not absorb the vitamin C

at the same time so if given the choice

the body will take the sugar over the

vitamin C and one really good way to

know if you’re deficient in vitamin C is

that if you have like spongy gums or

gums around your teeth are bleeding when

you brush your teeth that’s like a a

mild version of scurvy because we need

Vitamin C for the capillary strength

because the the collagen in the

capillaries and you have these gums that

are just rich in these capillary beds

now if you want some really good ideas

for alternatives to Sugar you should

probably watch this video right here