Does Looking at Sweets Spike Your Blood Sugar?

So I had a question from someone that wanted to know, would looking at sweets raise my bloodsugar? Would it trigger insulin response, just looking at sweets or carbs? The answer is no,not in a fasting state. You don’t have to worry about looking at carbs, okay? I mean, it might behard to resist carbs, but no, walking through a candy store is not going to make you fat, eventhough some people will say, well, I can just look at food and gain a pound, right? You actually have

to eat certain things. Now, there’s also this concept of consuming stevia or sugar alcoholthat is sweet, but it’s low in the glycemic index. Will that trigger insulin? The primary trigger ofblood sugars is glucose and those things that turn into glucose, like potato, rice, bread,cereal, crackers, biscuits, waffles, pancakes. So that’s the primary trigger. There’s othertriggers too. Stress releases cortisol, which then eventually will mobilize sugar from the protein

that’s converted into the sugar and spike your blood sugar that way. You also have somethingcalled GIP. This is a hormone-like compound, and that’s released in the small intestine.So anything you eat has the potential to trigger insulin just for the fact that you ate it. Now,if it’s more carbohydrate, it’s going to trigger it more. If it’s less carbohydrate and more fat,it’ll trigger it less. But it is true that protein also triggers some insulin, especially if it’s

low-fat or lean protein, as in whey protein powder, which basically has the highest glycemicindex of all the proteins. If you have a fatty piece of protein, it will not trigger insulin asmuch. And also if you have too much protein, that will trigger insulin. Now the thing about proteinis that protein also triggers the opposing hormone to insulin called glucagon. So you have thisbuffering effect and you don’t see the damage you would if it only triggered insulin. Another

question that people want to know is, Dr. Berg, you described this problem of most people havinghigh insulin. If that’s true, then why don’t we all have hypoglycemia? Because insulin pushesthe blood sugar down. Well, a lot of people do have hypoglycemia, but what really happens isyou have other hormones like cortisol and certain hormones in the liver that counterthe hypoglycemic reaction. So when the blood sugars go lower than they should, these hormones

counter that and keep the blood sugars from going too low. It’s only when these two hormones becomeweakened, so your adrenals are getting burnt out or your liver is getting damaged in some way,that you lose that counter effect. Then you start seeing more and more hypoglycemic reactions.But what’s going to happen is the chronic elevation of insulin is going to lead toinsulin resistance. I’ve done a lot of videos on this, but you can pretty much look at it like

this. You have a cell that’s resisting insulin. So insulin has a lot to do with absorbing fuel,putting fuel, glucose into the cell, also absorbing nutrients. So you have this cellthat’s basically starving, yet you have so much excess fuel that’s in a storage form. It’s fataround your body, but it’s unavailable to you. So some of the common symptoms for insulin resistanceor you can’t go a long period of time without the need of eating. So like two or three hours,

you need a snack. The need for snacks are very great when you have insulin resistance,especially at night and definitely in the afternoons. You’re not satisfied when you eat.So right at the end of the meal, regardless of how much you ate, you still feel like you needlittle something sweet. Okay. Why? Because the cells are starving for nutrition and fuel.Also, your cravings are high. Okay. So we have a hunger problem. We have cravings.

We’re not satisfied. All that means is you have insulin resistance. It’s very, very,very simple to fix this. I put a link down below for those of you that are new,check it out and thanks for watching so if you want to get notified with all mycontent click the notification bell next to subscribed