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 sugar
- sugar as the original gateway drug, and also as the most common cross addiction when people give up other substances
- the story of Michael raising his children without sugar, flour and caffeine
- the importance of community support in giving up sugar
- end-stage type 2 diabetes as a real downstream state of sugar addicts
- how sugar, a natural-seeming nutrient, can be so toxic
- what's happening physiologically when we ingest sugar
- the role of fructose in sugar addiction
- how 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 development
- how sugar, caffeine, and flour are related
- getting sugar classified as a drug, so that people can get real help to recover
- a brief history of sugar, the industry, and our culture around it
- a VERY long list of issues that people are dealing with as a result of sugar, diabetes, Alzheimers, autoimmunity
- if sugar were introduced into our society today, it would not be approved by FDA
- the importance of exercise in replacement dopamine sources when we remove sugar
- how important whole foods are when giving up sugar
- some of the borderline foods to be careful for when giving up sugar
- different kinds of sugar detoxes
- where Michael and his team are going, how they intend to March forward on changing the world.
Make sure to head over to to follow Michael’s work, and to get support on your journey back to your healthier self!
Also, go to his Facebook page for even more information and support.