You can continue to tolerate sugar until the day you can’t

For many of us, there will come a time when the body’s ability to remove excess sugar from the blood will decline – and suddenly we can no longer tolerate the same sugar intake that we once did.

Young and healthy people can usually live relatively healthily with a laissez faire relationship with sugar. They are able to do so, because they are equipped with a body that is very skilled at transporting excess sugar away from the blood and into the muscles and liver. However, for many of us, this ability reduces over time, which happens as a result of many factors, including ordinary ageing, genes, our general lifestyle and the advent of various forms of lifestyle-related diseases that affect many of us over time.

An overworked immune system

This change often occurs gradually – actually, our ability to store sugar can change in just a few days. Once you can no longer tolerate the same level of sugar as before, the muscles and liver are less able to absorb excess sugar from the blood. And this is where, you can quickly instigate a negative spiral, because the more sugar you have in your blood, the more insulin resistant you become. In other words, you gradually get worse and worse at removing sugar from your blood.

The consequence is that your sugar intake creates a number of high blood sugar spikes, which maintain the immune system being in an unnecessary state of overwork – and can help pave the way for a new negative spiral of issues, including hunger, fatigue, impaired fat burning, lifestyle diseases and even more inflammation.

Try a no-compromise sugar-free week

If you have landed in a situation with too much sugar in your blood, or if you suspect that you belong to the constantly growing group of insulin-resistant people, then you need to do something drastic to restore balance and improve your body’s ability to store sugar. My best advice to you is to start off with a no-compromise sugar-free week.

As a young and healthy person, you can easily benefit from sage pieces of advice such as cutting down on sugar a bit, replacing white flour with whole grain flour and so on. But if you are in a state where your body is no longer storing sugar optimally, then this type of sugar-reducing dietary change is like trying to put out a fire without a proper fire extinguisher.

If, however, you go try having a no-compromise stable blood sugar level for a week, you ‘reboot’ your system, after which adjusting your carbohydrate intake with less sugar and more whole grains can often be sufficient for maintaining your new stable blood sugar level.

Read the book The Truth about Sugar, understand the sugar’s journey in your body and be in charge of your own health universe.