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This is how much blood you have in your whole body, this is the amount of sugar your bloodstream can handle at a time, and this is the amount of sugar an average American eats every single day. Think of your bloodstream like a transporting highway for sugar, not a storage container for it. Sugar is only supposed to pass through briefly, not spend time there. When sugar stays in the

bloodstream too long over time, you increase your risk for dementia, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, accelerated aging, fatty liver disease, stress on the heart and blood vessels, and kidney failure. And that's if you have chronically high blood sugar for years. That doesn't happen from one sugary meal or dessert. It's what happens when blood sugar stays elevated too often for too long,

day after day. To understand why, you have to understand what happens in your body every time you consume sugar. Every time you eat sugar or carbs, your body turns that sugar into glucose, which your body uses as fuel. But when you eat, glucose doesn't just get used for fuel automatically. So your body calls an Uber to drive that sugar to a place it can be used. That Uber is called

insulin. Insulin's job is to pick up glucose from the blood and drive it somewhere to keep your blood sugar in a healthy range. It'll then drive sugar to one of two places depending on what kind of of body you have. If you're active, lift weights, eat well, and sleep well, the Uber will drive it

to your muscles because they have space for it to be used. But if you don't move much, don't lift weights, don't eat, and don't sleep well, your muscles are already full of glucose because it hasn't been used. So insulin still has to do its job and drive the glucose somewhere. So it drives