Thank you again for a fantastic video. I am sharing it with my grandchildren to get them on the path to thinking about their relationship to the food they eat.

These health topics are so... digestible. The first rule of health: mammals require daily vigorous exercise. If you leave your car idling all day, the engine and exhaust will be all gunked up. Wide open throttle from time to time keeps everything clean and smooth

I cut 90% of the added sugar out of my diet. My focus, alertness, energy levels, sleep quality, vision, stamina, libido, everything improved almost overnight. Thanks for sharing this info. It will help people. Diabetes and heart disease can be prevented. Sugar is the culprit.

Love the tap on shoulder analogy xD Your energy in exploring this vital topic is so wonderful to see. :)

Haha. I just watched your video about butter and cholesterol this morning and thought, “man can’t wait for the video about sugar” 😂

I've recently started becoming more mindful of reading the ingredients on the packs of junk food I buy, almost choked when I saw sugar as one of the first ingredients on a box of my favorite crackers. Goodbye crackers, hello heartbreak 🥲 Amazing video as usual, thanks for keeping us informed✨

Any time you hear "sugar" and "liver" in the same conversation, you should be asking about fructose. Glucose is metabolized throughout the body, fructose is metabolized only in the liver. In several papers, (such as Stanhope, et al., 2011) that have looked at this issue have found that production of LDL was impacted by fructose consumption - particularly by HFCS - but not by glucose consumption. Table sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose, so only half of that sugar is influencing LDL production. Unsurprisingly, we see a lot of the classic recommendations for low-cholesterol diets have low-fructose carbohydrates like oatmeal, potatoes, quinoa, almost every vegetable except for sweet peas, and surprisingly most fruit so long as you avoid drinking fruit juices - though any berries, bananas, and other lower-fructose fruits are better bets than apples, pears, cherries, watermelon, etc., but people rarely eat fruits to excess to see the same sort of fructose intake you see in cheap convenience foods. Sodas and most commercially produced foods use HFCS because it is cheap, but it is most likely the number one contributor to many of the diet-based health issues (such as atherosclerosis) we've seen in the past 50 years or so since it HFCS discovered. Kimber L. Stanhope, Andrew A. Bremer, Valentina Medici, Katsuyuki Nakajima, Yasuki Ito, Takamitsu Nakano, Guoxia Chen, Tak Hou Fong, Vivien Lee, Roseanne I. Menorca, Nancy L. Keim, Peter J. Havel, Consumption of Fructose and High Fructose Corn Syrup Increase Postprandial Triglycerides, LDL-Cholesterol, and Apolipoprotein-B in Young Men and Women, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 96, Issue 10, 1 October 2011, Pages E1596-E1605, doi.org/10.1210/jc.2011-1251

Sugar, you tricky bastard. I bet you also called and asked if my refrigerator was running!

I do not know how you come up with how you get from point A to point B but it is awesome, educational, and helpful! Thank you.

Can anyone spot the typo i made?

Merry Christmas Johnny! Discovered this a couple of years ago - both my wife and I are 60lbs lighter (and much slimmer) and in better shape than 30 years ago just by cutting out sugar, seed oils and processed junk food. Red meat, eggs and saturated fat are actually good for you and our bodies are living proof!

One of the best science communicators. Ever. Because, after getting the science down, you spend time on getting the communication down too. So many of the others stop after the first step. Well done ! Hope you build a great career outta this, you deserve it

I gave up sugar three years ago except for occasional fresh berries. I also gave up grains. These changes resulted in me losing 85 pounds and being healthier at 50 than I have been my whole life.

As a 60 year old watching and reading as much as I can about strategies to keep myself healthy, I have found your videos do the best job breaking down difficult concepts...and you make the breakdown fun and engaging as well.

Just found your channel recently and love the way you explain things! Would you consider breaking down the ways alcohol impacts insulin levels and the body overall sometime? Might be topical with New Years coming up :)

I love the way you present content.. Keep it up! I quit eating sugar and most carbs a year and a half ago after watching my mom die of diabetes and heart failure - I'm not into monitoring my internal performance, so can't describe exactly how i feel better, but i CAN say i shrank from a size 38 to a size 30 (i work at a desk from home and am not anywhere near as physically active as i oughta be) in that time and groceries got WAY cheaper

One of the most underrated channels on KZfaq!!! This is how and what, we should be teaching our children, instead of boring them to death with dry, unrelatable, and unreliable/ out of date text books.

Your teaching style is some of the best I've ever seen! Anyway I quit eating added sugar and sweets last year and I don't regret it. I did it from an athletic perspective and economic perspective. Health is wealth and you'll save quite a bit of money not eating cheezits, Goldfish, Poptarts because you'll be eating less but you'll also be eating more dense nutrient food. Anyone on their food journey I wish you my sincere best!

"Sugar is the devil." A co-worker said to me 20 years ago and I use it everyday to guide my diet choices.

The reason sugar is the preferred fuel is because its so harmful to the body. The body wants it out of the blood as fast as possible. The quickest way is to burn it first, before burning fat. Fat is easily stored for later. Sugar has to be turned to fat to be stored.

You have definitely won over a subscriber! So smart and so fun. I’m a middle aged woman with very high cholesterol. I’m overweight and working on getting healthier. I’ve watched countless hours of the most world renowned docs and experts. You, young man are my favorite! Keep up the good work! I hope you’re headed for medical school!

At seven I told my parents that I was addicted to sugar. I even stole candy from age 5. Went on to drink a lot of alcohol. Decades later I still find it very difficult to resist sugar.m though I’ve reduced it drastically. Ditto on all the excellent comments below - you are a treasure! ❤️

Thank you for breaking down the content into understandable pieces ^ω^ You always hear sugar is bad, but without a proper explanation as to why exactly it always just seems so nebulous. Now if only it didn't taste so damn nice 😩

Shoulder joke: Saw that with 3 kids at our school's first chilled water fountain. Sort of. Third kid in line reaches around and punches 1st kid who's taking long drinks. 1st kid turns around mad and punches 2nd kid. I was there and was able to straighten them out. Still, always a classic.

Thanks for undoing years of misinformation... Love this channel.!

I've been trying to watch my carb/sugar intake since diabetes runs in my family. the "rice is gonna do something different than a bunch of oreos" is something I had to learn. i was fr over here stressing about the sugars in the fruits i was eating in order to replace the cookies and such. monitoring food intake is a very fine balancing act with a history of ED as well

I recommended you on "Dr. John Campbell" channel (PhD in nursing education, UK, retired) about Covid. He pinned it to the top of the comments so he must have looked and approved. BTW, he now has 1.5 million subscribers.

First they took out fiber to make us able to eat more without feeling full (cookies were used as an example-used to be that old saying, "don't be going and spoiling your dinner with that cookie" because most people used whole wheat flours. By removing fiber, people can eat a whole container of cookies without feeling full-we just start feeling sick from the sugar).

I think there is an overall issue with what we eat now and how these foods are preserved, "made safe" grown, and so on. I think we are lacking minerals and vitamins that foods normally carry due to the fields where crops and animal feed is grown have been depleted, which makes it necessary for chemical fertilizers. Which in turn causes weed growth and insects to show up. Then we dump insecticides and herbicides on these crops, which we then eat. I can attest food tastes different than what it tasted like when I was growing up on a Mennonite farm where there was none of this going on. I remember sitting in my grandparent's garden growing up helping weed or pick vegetables. I think I ate as many vegetables as I put in the bucket, wagon, or whatever. Grandma would just laugh and make comments about not worrying about my vegetable intake. The beef, chicken, and pork also tasted better because it was treated differently. They were all free-range, as far as hams and bacon they were all cured with regular salt and pepper and smoking. If you think bacon tastes great now, you should really try bacon made by Amish or Mennonites! To an extent, I do not think vegetable oils are a bad thing, but chemicals used to grow, protect, and harvest the said vegetables and then process and preserve them are, which is causing another shoulder-tapping prank. Wheat and other grains are no longer harvested the same way where they are bundled and left to ferment in the sun for a period of time. Which I believe is required for them to be good to eat now they drop roundup on the fields to kill the wheat to prevent clogging the combines, then they harvest it. There is just such a huge difference in how we treat things now.

Man., this guy is just awesome at explaining complex processes.

Well done. Another great video. Please keep them coming.

Nailed it again, buddy! Great information!

I love your work! Thank you for another great video!

Another awesome video! I'm gonna have to go back and watch your insulin one

So happy you really cover the best topics!I have been waiting for this video! You are rocking it!

You made this super easy to understand, thanks for the enlightening video!

This channel is criminally underrated, you deserve at least 10x the views and subs you currently have

YES!! Great explanation! Thank you!

Your metaphors are incredible! Love what you're doing here with this channel. 🙌

Another great video! Thank you.

great stuff man

Brilliant. Nicely done. Great important information and VERY well produced. Thanks.

Just a great, informative, video! Thanks for the content

The power of your content and brilliance of the work you perform I will say comes from the analogical perspective that you use. You remain in the perspective of the normal average person, and relates to the masses. I enjoy watching your videos thru your use of everyday life topics and valuable insight on how our lives are impacted by the educational-deficient society. Cheers & thank you

Love your shoulder tap analogy, and all your videos in general. You give me hope for the youth of our country!

I really enjoy the way you put it.

Your videos are fabulous. You really have a gift.

You are so good at explaining things that would otherwise be difficult to understand. What a talent! Thank you!

Thanks for the info. I think it’s helpful! (Also great sweater!!)

Thank you for your videos. They make the topics simple for us.

Been off of sugary anything for about eight months. Thank you for trying to get this message out. I get into arguments with people at the farmer's markets about this all the time. What do they sell? Sweets and sweet pastries! Go figure. They're the same as the sugar barons from the 1800s. Already working to spread misleading information about the effects of sugar using selection bias, all the way back then. I've never felt better when still eating bread than the last eight months. I do keto and fasting from time to time. Just being off sugary foods has allowed my weight to be stable wherever I work to put it. Preach it, brother.

Love your videos and the simplistic way you explain these complex (to me) processes, definitely subscribing! One thing that would be cool to see is some sources so that people can share your information with confidence that it’s been thoroughly researched. Keep up the great work!

My grandmother was a nurse in the 1950s-1970s. She listened to doctors and cut out all fats, even olive oil (and she was Italian), but her cholesterol was the highest of anyone I've known. She ate nothing but non-fat, high sugar stuff. She did live to 81, which is pretty long, but died of a heart attack. I feel like she was just lied to, and it really bothers me. My mother used to listen to her when I was young, so everything was fat and sodium free in our house. My mom would talk about how dangerous butter and coconut oil were, to the point where we couldn't eat anything with either in it. But sugar, that wasn't restricted. We had plenty of cookies and cakes and all the really delicious 80s and 90s snack foods (some of which I still crave to this day which haven't been for sale for decades). It took my mom time but she woke up to the food BS, actually not long after my grandmother died. Her and my father are healthy and in their late 70s now, and my dad's doctor said he was the first 79 y/o man she'd met who was on exactly zero drugs!

I LIKE the way you explain stuff!

As it turns out, humans like being entertained as well as informed. You're a gifted entertainer/educator, and I look forward to seeing more from you. Many thanks

Merry Christmas. Thank you for being you. I've learned much from you and look forward to more learning.

Love the video man, please keep it up, this is the information I needed to actually make steps twords being healthy. I'm starting to make changes in my lifestyle and diet and knowing the actual functions behind key processes in the body is the knowledge I feel everyone should know in order to make the changes they feel are best. Keep it goin I look foward to seeing your channel and the community grow, I'd love to see just slightly longer videos too, but good stuff man👍

Love your videos!!

Your videos are awesome I can't believe you don't have more views I'm binge watching your stuff keep it up!

Bro your videos are so high quality I was shocked to find you didn't have more views/subscribers.

I'd say insulin's job isn't to store fat, but to store excess blood sugar. Loving your videos

You have a real talent for explaining complex processes in a simple way. Thanks.

Thanks for being so succinct and clear! Nutrition is on my topics to learn next year, can you recommend intro books beyond Hyman's "Food"?

such great content, this is gold

really great video. Very funny, you have a gift for explaining complex things in uncomplicated ways

I love this channel. Extremely well done and entertaining.😊

Great explanation! I actually understood this!

I've been saying this for a while, now. People act like what you eat becomes part of you through direct inclusion or something. No, the fat/cholesterol you eat doesn't become the same on your body. The digestive system breaks that all down and the body has to decide how to use those parts. It's not like the oil in your fried food is literally the same oil on your skin. So yes, thanks for sharing the nitty gritty of how it happens. Now if only I could stop enjoying these sodas...

Well done, video par excellence.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Keep up the great content 👍👍❤️ :)

Great job again! I’m looking forward to your next video. Merry Christmas!

Great video! I try to avoid, and greatly reduce, my sugar consumption, and have for years. Good to hear the science of it all so simply explained.

FABULOUS explanation. Thank you, you handsome genius!

This is the most concise video I've seen on this critically important subject. I quit sugar and processed foods this year and lost 30 lbs. without additional effort. I'm sharing... thanks. I've been warning everyone who'll listen about the dangers of excess simple carbs. Amazing video.

I believe you are on to something. Thank you for the video!

You are fire my dude!💥💗

Excellent video ☺️ Merry Christmas Johnny 🌲☃️🎅

dude i opened this up and was ready for a whole debate on why ldl this and that. props man.

You're AMAZING! 🤩 I love how you explain things so everyone can understand them. Have a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to future videos (new subscriber). 🎄✨🎁

I really love your style

Due to sickness I found this all out back in 2016. I was following doc's advise and still got sick. Back then, when I explained this to people... Well let's say I even lost a few people in my surroundings because they felt I was going insane and they stopped trusting me. I am so happy this is becoming more and more mainstream knowledge.

My husband and I are small (older) people. We have two things we harp on when people ask us dietary questions (any small person will know what I mean...) I always tell people that I limit my sugar intake. It fluctuates, but I keep a close eye on it. My husband tells people that he loves carbs, and thinks they've been vilified. He hardly eats sugar at all. This video is one I'm going to keep handy for sharing! Thank you! (When I say "limit", my goal is 50g/day, but it fluctuates up to 100 before I start to rein it in again)

I absolutely love your videos! Funny, well produced, info dense doses of education. I also love that you are unafraid and have the courage to bring God into the conversation, given how relevant He is! His creation is supremely logical and makes divine sense when we aren't deprived of the information we need to more fully understand it. I pray that no matter how much your channel grows, and no matter how difficult it may get, you never lose that drive to share your faith. I'm thrilled to be a subscriber, and I can't wait to see where this journey of a channel takes you. Merry Christmas, brother! ❤

Thank you! I have been killing myself at the gym but until recently I started modifying my diet. These videos help!

Damn this video got picked up by the algorithm! Hope it keeps growing

Just subscribed a week ago and am enjoying your vids.

This guy is by far one of the best channels on utube.

Excellent!

Nice! How about a video on the Randle cycle? I can see you making that understandable. 🤞

You’re a gem fam

Good stuff. It could use a diagram at the end of the video, or even better, a diagram image.png we can share with others with a watermark of your channel, of course. Because we all know someone who sends you video after video in the messaging apps, this would overcome that initial barrier for people like us to learn more on eating appropriately.

I really hope you become a professor, you were gifted with the ability to deliver a message to any audience no matter the complexity of the subject. Thank you for the time and information you give to us.

I already loved you & your vids, but the Snoopy hat made me love you all over again. Plus I’m on keto with high ldl lol

lol I Commented about this in your last vid on butter, but it was more related to what they did with transfats and replaced with sugar, it was a BBC documentary, it was pretty interesting.

great again. TY

Fantastic!! I wish more people would watch this.

My new favorite channel.

You have the spirit of a teacher! I really appreciate your videos, and where were you 30 years ago when I was in middle school because my teachers did not do their jobs?! 😢

Over the holidays, visiting others houses I’ve gone back to eating foods/products that include enriched wheat, added sugar, vegetable oils. And now I feel SO tired & sluggish 😞 I hope your channel takes off so more people can understand nutrition and its impact on us.

5:33 man, that ketchup guy is a machine!