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The #1 Most Perilous Carb Globally

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You could be consuming the world’s most dangerous carbohydrate without even realizing it. This hidden carb spikes your blood sugar, even more than actual sugar. Find out about the #1 most dangerous carb in this video. Watch this episode next: Reset Your Body in 5 Days (With Zero Food) Chapters: 0:00 Introduction: The #1 most dangerous carb in the world 1:58 What is the worst carbohydrate? 2:20 What is starch? 5:20 Refined carbohydrates and chronic disease 6:08 Hidden sugar foods 8:31 Food vs. ultra-processed foods It’s no secret that ultra-processed carbs can take a serious toll on your health. Consuming this dangerous carbohydrate can have the following side effects: •Development of type 2 diabetes and a fatty liver •Insulin resistance •Visceral fat •Feeds pathogens in the gut •Inflammation •Increased LDL cholesterol Products containing this ingredient can be marketed as zero sugar, even though it quickly turns to sugar in the blood. It’s incredibly cheap, at about 20 cents per pound, and has no health benefits. It’s used as a filler, and the average person consumes between 60 and 250 pounds per year. You can find this ingredient in gluten-free foods, baby formulas, baked goods, and other refined foods. Surprisingly, many athletes also consume this product. The carb we’re talking about is industrial starch, such as modified food starch, corn starch, and maltodextrin. Starch is a string of glucose molecules. When a starch is modified in a lab, its bonds become very weak and fragile, causing it to turn into sugar very quickly in the body. Industrial starches are processed with chemicals such as sodium trimetaphosphate, vinyl acetate, bleach, and octenyl succinic anhydride. These chemicals are considered GRAS (generally recognized as safe), but they are self-regulated. Industrial starches are directly responsible for the complications associated with type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, brain plaquing, and fibrosis of the liver. People rarely consume starch alone. Most junk foods are composed of starches, seed oils, and sugar. Consuming starch with seed oils is a deadly combination! Hidden sugars are also consumed in much higher quantities than actual sugar. Food is defined as “that which is eaten to sustain life, to promote the growth and repair of tissues.” By this definition, starch is not food! Disclaimer: Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. #health #keto #ketodiet #weightloss #ketolifestyle #intermittentfasting #lowcarb Thanks for watching. I hope this increases your awareness of the dangers of starch and hidden sugars. I’ll see you in the next video. --- ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The #1 Most Perilous Carb Globally

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most dangerous carb in the world and it's not sugar. Okay, even by a long shot. This carbohydrate creates such a massive blood sugar spike way more than sugar, but it's not even classified as a sugar. It's a carb, but it's not a sugar. It has the potential to create diabetes type two and a fatty liver and insulin resistance, which is the precursor to type two diabetes. In other words, it will mess with your blood sugar big time. It's going to create visceral fat. That's the fat around your organs. It will disrupt your good microbes and feed the pathogens, the bad guys in your gut. It is a super inflammatory carbohydrate. It will create inflammation not just in your joints, but especially in your gut. If you're ever concerned about the true bad cholesterol, the LDL small particles that can invade the inside of the arteries, this is one carb that will do it in a heartbeat. It's marketed as zero sugars. It only costs 20 cents per pound. So this is a

buck out of it right here. This is 25 pounds. Pretty heavy. This is five bucks. And that's because it subsidized. That means the taxpayers actually end up fronting the money for it so they can get it at a fraction of the real cost. All right, what's the purpose of this carbohydrate? It has no health benefits. It's a filler. Okay, it adds bulk to a product. An average person consumes between 65 and 250 pounds of this stuff every single year. That comes out to 21 billion pounds of this carbohydrate produced every year. It's in a lot of the gluten-free foods. It's in baby formulas. It's in baked goods. A lot of athletes consume it. Can you now guess what this car is? It is a starch, but not just any old starch, not the potatoes that your grandmother served you. We're

talking about industrial starch, modified food starch, corn starch, maltodextrin. All right, what is the starch? This is a starch right here. We have sugar over here. A starch is a string of sugar molecules on a chain. But when you modify it in the lab, you strip away all the armor. You now refine it and break it down to such a level that these bonds between the sugar become very, very weak and fragile. So when you consume it, it breaks down into sugar so fast, even more than glucose. So when I talk about industrial starch, I'm not talking about these potatoes or even the starch and vegetables. I'm talking about this powder right here. This powder that has been so highly refined, and what I mean by refined, it's mechanically ground down into a small particles. They had bleach, but of course, if you consume this in a spoon, it would not be very pleasurable.

It's not even that sweet unless you chewed it for a while, because if you chewed it, in fact, if you even took a piece of bread in your mouth, it wouldn't be sweet unless you chewed it a little bit, and you broke down the bonds to release the sugar. And then it would be sweet. I'm going to run through very quickly just the chemicals that they use in this modification. You really need to know this. One chemical that uses is called sodium tri-meda phosphate. This has been linked to kidney stress and bascular calcification. It may worsen bone de-mineralization and accelerate aging process and arteries. Here's another one. Vinyl acetate. Vinyl acetate is considered a possible human carcinogen. Here's another one. Sodium hypochloride. This is bleach. Bleach is interesting because they regulate bleach in the water supplies as a carcinogen, but they don't regulate it in the food starch. Over exposures link to kidney stress and damage to your enamel and mucosal tissues. And then they add this other chemical. This is widely used in

infant formulas and beverages. It may disrupt mitochondria function if consumed excess. Here's the point. All of those chemicals I just mentioned are self-regulated under something called grass, which is generally recognized as safe. And so the question is how can it actually be safe if it's not even tested for long-term studies? And so you don't have to really wonder why we have chronic disease. If we look at this, okay, we have 16 grams of total carbohydrate. We have one gram of fiber and we have zero grams of sugar. What is left? We have 15. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. Break through the busiest time of year with the brand new Peloton cross-training tread plus, powered by Peloton IQ. With real-time guidance and endless ways to move, you can personalize your workouts and train with confidence, helping you reach your goals in less time. Let yourself run, lift, sculpt, push, and go. Explore the new

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in the brain and also the fibrosis or scar tissue in your liver. But there's one more thing I need to mention without giving you a lot of big words. This is the word right here which is a byproduct of glucose from the starch. It's called an aldehyde. I don't know if you ever heard about this chemical but this is what they use to embalm people to preserve them. The other one is another chemical that I'm not going to give you the long name on. All you need to realize is that it's the toxin that occurs after you drink alcohol the day after when you have the hangover. But don't worry it gets worse. If you take a look at junk food right what is it composed of sugar starch and seed oils right but when you combine this starch with the seed oil under heat you create a compounded toxic soup that is deadly on your tissues. Very few people just consume starch by itself they have it in different forms like chips right potato chips which is mostly seed oil

and refine industrial starch. And if you go in the snack aisle and the grocery store you'll see all sorts of versions of these chips or crunchy things with basically seed oil in more starch. I mean chips have like 65% starch 30% oil then we get crackers. Here's the cheesets right 70% starch 25% seed oils then we have cereal 80% starch sometimes they put seed oils but mostly the ad sugar to that but there's usually always some seed oil involved. What have we gotten bread 75% starch maybe some sugar but definitely seed oil is 15% pasta has starch we have 15% seed oils french fries 80% starch 15% seed oils so what's really bizarre to me is it's so many of us have been focused on sugar for so many years but the starch is actually consumed in way higher quantities and actually it's more deadly. Now remember I'm not just picking on starches I'm not

picking on this potato you get from the garden or vegetable starches I'm picking on the industrial starches like these mashed potatoes that have been highly processed. There's a big difference between you cooking this and you just adding water to this right here but of course some people say I don't eat corn starch but then if you look in their pantry they usually have some pop tart or some other food that has modified corn starch but because they don't read the label they don't know and then they'll tell me well it's organic but look at how much starch in seed oils that are in here it's the same as non-organic it's pretty wild as I was in the grocery store the other day and I bought these hot dogs the third ingredient is modified food starch in hot dogs why because it's a filler to add bulk so if we look at the definition of food that which is eaten to sustain life promote the growth and repair of tissues does the ingredients in all to process food calories aka

junk food industrial starch fit this definition no it does not fit the biological definition of the word food and it shouldn't be called food but it is because of various loopholes that is built into the legal definition of food which is a completely different conversation I'll do another video just on that so they can actually keep selling it and calling it food the basic three ingredients for most junk food ultra-process foods sugar usually synthetic sugar makes it 5 to 20% of that seed oils makes up 20 to 35% of that and starches make up the majority 55 to 75% of ultra-process food calories are starches and I created a really cool app for you to use to identify these three things all you have to do is download the free app and then scan the bar code on any box of food and it will quickly represent these three things so you can visually see how much

of these are in the foods in your pantry in your refrigerator or at the grocery store unfortunately 65% of the calories young children eat are ultra-process foods and 55 pounds of that is just industrial starch when you get to teeny sear has all the best active and outdoor brands you need from athletic stuff like a flow court pickup game swish to athletic ish stuff like a half mile stroll get those steps in and for morning hikes up the mountain trail good pace tonight time ghost stories from the campy chair what a twist whatever level of active seara loves it all head to seara or seara.com for the brands you want at the prices that let you do it all from athletic to athletic ish seara's got it eczema is unpredictable but you can blare less with ebgles a once-monthly treatment for moderate to superior eczema after an initial four-month or longer dosing phase about four and ten people taking ebgles achieved itch relief and glare are almost glare skin at 16 weeks

and most of those people maintain skin that's still more clear at one year with monthly dosing ebgles library kizumap lbkz a 250 milligram per two milliliter injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema also called a topic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies ebgles can be used with or without topical corticosteroids don't use if you're allergic to ebgles allergic reactions can occur that can be severe eye problems can occur tell your doctor if you have new or worsening eye problems you should not receive a live vaccine when treated with ebgles before starting ebgles tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection ask your doctor about ebgles and visit ebgles.lily.com or call 1-800-LilyRX or 1-800-545-5979 ages it's 70 percent of their calories are ultra processed foods and that's over 106 pounds of actual industrial starch now these numbers are extremely conservative it's probably a lot more but it's just one reference that i found adults have 55 percent of their calories

ultra processed food and 67 pounds of industrial starch i mean it's mind-blowing that the great majority of our calories are ultra processed food calories now i really gave starches a black eye okay but the next most important thing you need to understand is the data about seed oils and for that video you should watch i put it up right here check it out right now the ups store is making packing and shipping Easter gifts quicker than ever this year with ups air how quick quicker than a walk around the park quicker than eating all the easter candies quicker than finding a golden egg that you know is stuffed with cash when you ship ups air at the ups store your items arrive on time or your money back guaranteed at no extra cost exclusively at the ups store us retail locations send easter jewel on time at the ups store visit the ups store dot com slash air guarantee for full details trends and conditions apply

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