What Happens If You Stop Eating Sugar for 14 Days – Dr. Berg On Quitting Sugar Cravings

- So the question is what would actually happen to your body if you really gave up sugar, I mean completely, for two weeks? Let's take a look at that. Number one, you are gonna lose your appetite to sugar. Why? Because every time you consume sugar, a hormone comes in there and pushes your blood sugars down,

causing a low blood sugar situation, hypoglycemia, to some degree and that is gonna cause you to crave sugar. So by getting rid of sugar, you get rid of the craving for sugar. Number two, you're gonna be less hungry. Until you do this, you won't really fully know, but I'm telling you, it's the sugar that keeps you hungry all the time.

When you give up the sugar, you become a lot less hungry. Why? Because you stabilize your blood sugars and now your cells can be actually fed because when you're living on sugar, because sugar is toxic to the body, the body starts rejecting it. That's called insulin resistance. So the body is blocking insulin

because that controls sugar and what your body is really trying to do is limit the amount of sugar inside the cells. So the body doesn't consider it a good thing. It's a bad thing. So when you give it up, this thing could reverse. And not only can you now absorb proper amounts of fuel.

You'll absorb nutrients a lot better too because insulin resistance also blocks nutrients, minerals, vitamins, and that's one of the functions of insulin. All right, number three. You can have less fatigue especially after eating a meal. When you're eating sugar on a regular basis, usually you're gonna be tired after you eat and that is a blood sugar thing.

But you're gonna find that you're no longer gonna be that tired after you eat. It just means that now you're no longer having higher sugar, which basically makes the brain tired. It's normal sugar, and now your brain can be awake. All right, number four, you're gonna lose excessive water and fat. For the first week you're gonna dump a lot of water