Send me a message!Hello everyone, welcome back to the podcast - it has been a while, but we're off with a new season. As you may be able to tell, I am not using my usual sound recording equipment for this one, I have been on the move and did not want to delay getting this information out - just so you understand.I had a conversation with Michael Collins from sugaraddiction.com about sugar, of course. Let me tell you, he's not beating around the bush, sugar is a drug, and we are all addicted, period. Maybe you prefer flour-based food products to sugar ones, but Michael shares how they are not so different when it comes to our health.I was blown away by what he shares after working with thousands of people to give up this drug.I'm also grateful for the strategies he shares to help anyone give up this habit, don't miss it.We also touch on the massive emotional side of sugar addiction, and addiction in general - something you have to understand if you're struggling to drop this poison.Lastly, Michael shares the most important place that you should be getting your dopamine bumps from when you stop getting them from sugar - crucial information.We cover the following:Michael's story of how he came to work with sugarsugar as the original gateway drug, and also as the most common cross addiction when people give up other substancesthe story of Michael raising his children without sugar, flour and caffeinethe importance of community support in giving up sugarend-stage type 2 diabetes as a real downstream state of sugar addictshow sugar, a natural-seeming nutrient, can be so toxicwhat's happening physiologically when we ingest sugarthe role of fructose in sugar addictionhow we use sugar to self-medicate and self-regulate our emotions and stress, and how doing this from early on in our life stunts our emotional developmenthow sugar, caffeine, and flour are relatedgetting sugar classified as a drug, so that people can get real help to recovera brief history of sugar, the industry, and our culture around ita VERY long list of issues that people are dealing with as a result of sugar, diabetes, Alzheimers, autoimmunityif sugar were introduced into our society today, it would not be approved by FDAthe importance of exercise in replacement dopamine sources when we remove sugarhow important whole foods are when giving up sugarsome of the borderline foods to be careful for when giving up sugardifferent kinds of sugar detoxeswhere Michael and his team are going, how they intend to march forward on changing the world

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