Bill Wilson explains how blood sugar spikes and crashes trigger sugar cravings: your brain interprets the drop as starvation and demands quick carbs. GLP-1 drugs flatten these glucose swings, breaking the cycle that evolution wired into us for actual food scarcity.
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Some people are reporting that they are just losing their craving for sugar. Is that related to what you're describing?
Yeah, the craving for sugar is. The brain, when it sees that drop below, you know, you get a glucose spike and it goes below normal. The brain, when it sees those drops below normal, thinks, oh, we're out of food. The brain evolves to read that as we're running out of food, it's time to eat. It didn't know there was this glucose spikes and drops. Okay, the only time that happened in the past is when you didn't eat for a couple of days. The brain says, you better go find something to eat. And that sugar is low, so make sure it's something that is converted to glucose rapidly. And that would be a high glycemic carbohydrate, sucrose, fructose, et cetera. So your brain craves those things to try to fix that. It doesn't realize what's driving who's driving the bus here.