The One Thing Sugar Isn’t

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t they could afford the time to think about diet. Now, more and more people feel they are doing well, and they are looking to sculpt their bodies from inside out, and sugar is the public enemy number one.Concurrently, diabetes is lithurgically deemed a sugar and insulin problem. It is a convenient merry-go round for the pharmaceutical and sugar industry.But diabetes is not a sugar problem. Diabetes has, in fact, been successfully treated with sugar in studies.People misunderstand as always causation and correlation. Sugar is not the cause of disease — it is merely a powerful catalyst for increased metabolism. Metabolism which, correctly so, increases the need for vitamins and minerals in the body. And these we do not have readily available anymore, what with top soils being massacred of their life-giving properties.Simply put: the more sugar one consumes, the higher the metabolism. The higher the metabolism, the bigger the need for vitamins and minerals.And what does nature almost always pair sugar with?It isn’t the tooted magnesium.It’s potassium.Diabetes may very well showcase problems with insulins, but what is lacking up-stream is potassium. Because sugar almost always </i

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comes with a hefty dose of potassium.Potassium is also, incidentally, one of the main relaxants of tissue. Without it, we feel tense and stressed. We reach for the sugar — biologically we are wired to associate its taste with the incoming of anxiolytic potassium. And while sugar is in itself a powerful cortisol diminisher, it depletes in the long run the minerals and B-vitamins needed for the whole picture to happen.You can see how problems arise in this.The times are adrenergic, meaning adrenaline driving. Between all the tasks, information and sensory input, we are running on adrenaline most of the time (certainly in cities), where our ancestors were mostly chilling like cats or trees in nature, with their cooling thyroid hormones intact.Let us, then, stop blaming sugar, which can be a powerful medicine in these stressful times. Nature would not make its most edible items sweet if sugar were bad. Let us instead see how stress and denaturalization (sugar without potassium, sugar without fruits and protein) is the cause of our worst metabolic diseases.And remember Hippocrates, who said that all diseases are metabolic diseases. Because at some point in time, either too much or too little was put into the body.</article></body>

Forgetting narratives where they matter the most…

Sugar is one of those words that is more and more stigmatized by the day. In western society, Susan Sontag’s premonition is certainly coming true, that we will all be talking about health more than ever, while constantly keeping a disease du jour, one to measure ourselves against, in terms of well-being and salutogenic success.

The diseases we tend to boogey to range widely. The alleged pathogen SaRs-Covid-19 is a recent one; the classics are diabetes and cancer, even if soon mental issues such as depression and PTSD will be seen as every-day normalcies as well. All these seem to be on the rise. All are ruthlesslessly misunderstood in terms of root cause and the danger they pose.

The narrative about sugar being bad is making its way down the classes. Previously, only those who were financially stable felt they could afford the time to think about diet. Now, more and more people feel they are doing well, and they are looking to sculpt their bodies from inside out, and sugar is the public enemy number one.

Concurrently, diabetes is lithurgically deemed a sugar and insulin problem. It is a convenient merry-go round for the pharmaceutical and sugar industry.

But diabetes is not a sugar problem. Diabetes has, in fact, been successfully treated with sugar in studies.

People misunderstand as always causation and correlation. Sugar is not the cause of disease — it is merely a powerful catalyst for increased metabolism. Metabolism which, correctly so, increases the need for vitamins and minerals in the body. And these we do not have readily available anymore, what with top soils being massacred of their life-giving properties.

Simply put: the more sugar one consumes, the higher the metabolism. The higher the metabolism, the bigger the need for vitamins and minerals.

And what does nature almost always pair sugar with?

It isn’t the tooted magnesium.

It’s potassium.

Diabetes may very well showcase problems with insulins, but what is lacking up-stream is potassium. Because sugar almost always comes with a hefty dose of potassium.

Potassium is also, incidentally, one of the main relaxants of tissue. Without it, we feel tense and stressed. We reach for the sugar — biologically we are wired to associate its taste with the incoming of anxiolytic potassium. And while sugar is in itself a powerful cortisol diminisher, it depletes in the long run the minerals and B-vitamins needed for the whole picture to happen.

You can see how problems arise in this.

The times are adrenergic, meaning adrenaline driving. Between all the tasks, information and sensory input, we are running on adrenaline most of the time (certainly in cities), where our ancestors were mostly chilling like cats or trees in nature, with their cooling thyroid hormones intact.

Let us, then, stop blaming sugar, which can be a powerful medicine in these stressful times. Nature would not make its most edible items sweet if sugar were bad. Let us instead see how stress and denaturalization (sugar without potassium, sugar without fruits and protein) is the cause of our worst metabolic diseases.

And remember Hippocrates, who said that all diseases are metabolic diseases. Because at some point in time, either too much or too little was put into the body.