JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

Sugar is WORSE than you think!

14 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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JJ Virgin (speaker) warns that sugar—especially fructose—harms gut health by increasing harmful bacteria, decreasing beneficial bacteria, and damaging the gut barrier (leading to 'leaky gut'). She links these gut effects to increased inflammation, reduced mucosal immunity, and metabolic dysregulation that can contribute to obesity, diabetes, and cancer. The speaker begins to transition to practical advice on avoiding added sugars.

It's like, duh, no big surprise. But sugar can increase harmful bacteria, it can decrease healthy bacteria, it can damage the gut barrier. And by the way, we know that fructose especially leads to leaky gut. It increases inflammation, it decreases mucosal immunity, it can contribute to metabolic dysregulation, which then can lead to all sorts of metabolic diseases like obesity and diabetes and cancer. Okay, so if we're looking at avoiding, especially first, like, avoid added sugars, what can you use?