Balancing your blood sugar is the best way to tackle sugar cravings. Got a sweet tooth? Sorry but that’ll actually be a sugar addiction. When you’re in a cycle of too much sugar this leaves you with not enough chromium and no way to balance your blood sugar. Your blood sugar spikes and drops quicker leaving you with cravings. Any stage of eating too much sugar can create this and chromium is a common deficiency anyway which makes things worse. Balancing your blood sugar makes a big difference to your health.
What Does It Help? Sugar cravings, sugar imbalances, metabolism, body cycles such as sleep patterns/when you are hungry, energy levels, digestion, healthy weight, sperm count, hormones, liver, inflammation, pre-diabetes and diabetes symptoms, pain, inflammatory conditions such as endometriosis, IBS, intolerances like coeliac’s, arthritis and many more.
How Does It Work? Sugar imbalances effect your metabolism which effects your energy levels and body cycles. Balancing your sugar levels helps restore and maintain equilibrium in your body. Sugar highs and crashes conversely can cause a whole host of issues. Long term sugar imbalance makes diabetes more likely through increased insulin resistance. It’s an important issue to address and can be done quite quickly.
We can’t handle a lot of sugar as in the refined form without natural fibre (as you would find in fruit, raw sugar cane or sugar beet). Fibre is required to effectively digest sugar and without it it’s very hard for your body to do so. Unfortunately, rather than having less sugar so your body can handle it, most people have too much without the fibre. This puts their body under strain. Correcting this problem has some big short-term and long-term health benefits.
How Do You Do It? Take chromium. Chromium is the mineral that the body uses to maintain blood sugar. It’s not found in many foods and gets used up pretty quick if someone has a high sugar diet which leaves them with sugar cravings. Chromium is a bit like a nicotine patch for sugar – it helps control the blood sugar so you don’t have cravings. Take as directed on the supplement bottle for 3 -4 weeks. It’s important you get food or natural source supplements or it can be hard to absorb. 200-500 µg is usually enough and take them according to the instructions on the bottle.
If you’ve had a lot of sugar, your chromium levels are low and this helps rebalance everything. Potassium helps balance blood sugar too. This is not a very common deficiency, but just make sure you are getting plenty in your diet to support the process. Potassium is found in green veg, fish, nuts, tomatoes and dried fruit.
Reduce your sugar intake at the same time. This is important – just taking chromium is not enough to balance your sugar levels if you are still consuming more than the body can digest properly. The chromium will help with the cravings to make this easier. Fruit juice, honey, squash, soda, sweets, chocolate, desserts amongst other things all contain lots of simple, refined of sugar. Honey and some syrups maybe more natural with more health benefits, but they are still a simple sugar with no fibre. They’ll still spike your blood sugar and cause issues.
As much as possible try to swap sugary snacks for fruit and go for fruit first when you have a sugar craving. This has a huge amount of fibre in and so will help control your blood sugar whilst satiating the craving. Drinking plenty of water helps things too. I find clients often like the taste of water more after their sugar levels have balanced and their taste for sweet things generally reduces. Please do not switch to sugar free alternatives. Things like diet drinks contains sweeteners like aspartame. These are incredibly hard to digest and massively increase your chances of a stroke according to recent studies. This can be difficult, but if you stick with it your sugar levels will rebalance after 2 – 3 weeks. After this (as you now know the symptoms) this is much easier to maintain.
Once your blood sugar is balanced and you don’t have the cravings it’s way easier to eat less sugar. This helps with weight management, diabetes and all the other sugar overdose problems.
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