Want to change your health? Get rid of the sugar in your diet. It’s true. A 21 day sugar detox will support your metabolism, insulin sensitivity, body fat, brain health, mood, hormones, and more.
The best part?
It’s easy.
In just 21 days, you can reset your habits. You can replace sugar-addiction habits with better, healthier habits based on healthy, living, whole foods.
Ready for a nutrition overhaul and sugar detox? Let’s do this.
Why You Need a Sugar Detox
Unfortunately, the average American adult consumes 17 teaspoons of sugar each day, and 57 pounds each year (1). For some it’s much higher.
In fact, some adults literally eat sugar at every meal, sometimes without even realizing it. They may not realize their cereal, morning drink, salad dressing, barbeque sauce, and health-food diet snacks have added sugars.
What’s more, many are in the habit of drinking sugar. This may include dessert-style coffees, high-sugar energy drinks, sugar-loaded smoothies, and sugar-added teas.
Unfortunately, not all sugar looks like sugar. Our bodies break down almost all carbohydrates, even those you might think are healthy, and turn them into a fuel it can use: blood sugar. In fact, almost every starch you eat is sugar in your body. This means most breads, pastas, cereals, etc. are little more than sugar and result in similar outcomes.
It’s time for a 21 day sugar detox!
Sugar Health Issues
Many health issues can result from the overconsumption of sugar. These include (2):
Increase in Blood Sugars and Insulin
Sugar digests and absorbs into the bloodstream very quickly after you eat or drink it. Once absorbed, it makes its way to the liver, blood, and eventually, cells. is dumped into the bloodstream and finds its way to cells. Sugar in the blood is very dangerous to the body, so it tries its best to maintain steady blood sugars by sending it into cells. How?
It uses insulin. Insulin “opens cell doors” and allows the sugar in.
This is better than leaving it in the bloodstream, but can still be devastating to human health, weight, chronic disease risk, and wellness.
Increases in Insulin Resistance
The more sugar dumps into the bloodstream, and the more insulin is needed to get it into cells, the more resistant to insulin cells become. This is a horrible negative cycle, and being overweight or obese exacerbates it. What’s more, insulin resistance can cause fat gain and make it harder to lose fat.
Mood and Energy Swings
As the body tries to deal with blood sugar and insulin, the body and brain feel the ups and downs. In fact, blood sugar rises can make you feel energized, only to feel more fatigued as it moves from the blood into the cells. In those with impaired blood sugar controls, this can result in low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is linked to lightheadedness, dizziness, fatigue, and more. It can be a serious condition.
A 21 day sugar detox will energize you and help you feel balanced.
Sugar and Body Fat
With more sugar intake and potential insulin resistance, the body adds fat. Insulin itself is an anabolic hormone, meaning it builds mass (and unfortunately, not muscle mass). If insulin resistance increases, more insulin is needed each time blood sugars become too high. Unfortunately, more insulin equals more fat mass, and more insulin resistance which equals more insulin needed.
How can you stop this cycle? Start by cutting out sugar with a 21 day sugar detox.
Sugar, Insulin Problems and More Health Issues
Obesity and insulin resistance are associated with many chronic diseases. In fact, obesity itself is considered its own chronic disease (since 2013) by the American Medical Association (3). Obesity is linked to metabolic syndrome, heart disease, mental decline, cardiovascular disease (4), diabetes (5),and mortality (6). In addition, extra body weight can also negatively affect other conditions and body systems including hypertension (7),bone health, gallstones (8),and more.
Sugar Accelerates Aging and Oral Health Issues
Incredibly, high sugar diets are associated with inflammation, and inflammation can accelerate aging of the skin, cells, and brain. In fact, skin can lose elasticity when blood sugars are chronically high. What’s more, sugar does cosmetic and health damage to the teeth, aging them in appearance and increasing risk of decay.
And, it gets a bit worse. As you read above, almost all carbohydrates, whether from sugar, starches, fruits, or other, become blood sugar?
Time for Your 21 Day Sugar Detox
Are you ready to take the next step and improve your energy, body fat level, and health? There’s never been a better time for your own 21 day sugar detox. We’ll lead you through it.
- Start with our 21 Day Detox Starter Kit. It has everything you need to get started with your sugar detox.
- Use the tools in the starter kit to transform your eating habits. Focus on loads of healthy vegetables (especially greens), healthy fats (like extra virgin olive oil), lemon water, fiber, and some healthy proteins (especially fish and lean poultry). You can find many, many recipes on this site to help you as well. Try: Keto Zone Lemonade, Keto Zone Detox Green Smoothie, and more!
- Then, keep it going by adding intermittent fasting to your daily routine. It’s easy, and Dr. Colbert’s Fasting Zone book (included in the starter kit) will lead you through it!
- Keep up your motivation by listening to Dr. Colbert’s Podcasts & using the articles on this site, our Facebook page, etc. to take Sugar Detox and Fasting from 21 days to a full-blown lifestyle!
Bottom Line
If you are ready to change your health, there’s no better time than the present. Take charge, detox from sugar, and see your health soar! In just 21 days, you can form new habits and rid yourself of sugar addiction. Use our 4 steps above, and make your lifestyle a sugar detox lifestyle!
