Eating THIS Stiffens Your Heart and Inflames Your Brain
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July 15th 2025
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In this clip from Rhonda Patrick's appearance on Modern Wisdom, she discusses:
- Can elevated blood sugar shrink parts of your brain?
- Why excess blood sugar might age your heart and arteries
- How a diet high in added sugar causes brain inflammation
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Sugar News
- Daily sweetened drink intake raises diabetes risk: 23% for sugar-sweetened, 38% for artificially sweetened.
- Artificial sweetener sucralose may disrupt the brain's appetite regulation by mimicking sweetness without increasing blood sugar, leading to increased hunger and altered brain activity.
- Sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to 9.8% of new type 2 diabetes cases and 3.1% of new cardiovascular disease cases globally.
- Drinking more than eight sugar-sweetened drinks a week increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases by up to 31%.
- Adding sugar to tea or coffee increases the risk of premature death by up to 11 percent.
