This little graphic shows exactly how your body handles sugar—and how it plays havoc with your hormones and behaviour when you’re eating foods packed full of sugar.
Let’s break it down: Stage 1 is obvious, you’ve had a shocker at work, not eaten since your breakfast and you wollop down a snickers and can of coke on your dinner.
At stage 2, your body releases a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Dopamine is the feel-good chemical that makes you want more. It’s like hitting a pleasure button—again, and again, and again.
But that’s not all. Alongside dopamine, insulin gets released into your bloodstream from your pancreas. Insulin’s job? To escort sugar out of your blood to keep your blood sugar levels balanced.
Here’s where things go sideways.
When insulin moves sugar out of your bloodstream, it wants to store it in your muscles as energy. But when your muscles are full of stored energy because you’ve been eating more food than you need, guess what? That sugar doesn’t just vanish mate—it gets stored as body fat instead.
When you overeat sugar, and you keep spiking your insulin - do this long enough, and you’re setting yourself up for insulin resistance (we’ll talk more about this), which will eventually lead to pre diabetes and eventually full blown diabetes. {1}
And you already know that all that sugar over time contributes to a nice spare tire around your waist, muffin tops, chippy tits, and your energy taking a nosedive.
Rethink Sweet: The 10 Step No-BS Guide to Low-Sugar Living is going to help you break this toxic sugar cycle from hell.
If you put even a just a few of these steps into action over the next 10 days, I guarantee you’ll have more energy, a sharper mind, more focus, and you won’t be snapping at people left and right.
Plus, you could drop at least 7 pounds—half a stone—without even touching exercise.
Good times, right?
Sound good? Let’s go.