Sweeteners: Which Ones Are Actually Safe for Blood Sugar

Monk fruit, stevia, allulose, honey, aspartame. With so many sweeteners on the shelf, which ones are actually safe if you are watching your blood sugar? In this episode, Dr. Scott Saunders explains why the real question is not sweetness or calories. It is whether a sweetener makes your body release insulin.

Using the story of a bear that eats 100,000 berries a day, Dr. Saunders shows how sugar and many sweeteners keep you storing fat instead of burning it. He then ranks the common sweeteners from worst to safest and answers a full hour of viewer questions on ketones, fruit, salt, caffeine, and more.

In this episode, Dr. Saunders covers:

• Why insulin, not sugar or calories, is the real driver of weight gain and low energy
• The story of the bear, and how eating berries leads to insulin resistance and fatty liver
• Which sweeteners can still trigger insulin: aspartame, sucralose, monk fruit, and stevia
• Why allulose may be the one sweetener that behaves differently
• How honey, agave, coconut sugar, and other natural sugars really affect blood sugar
• A simple at-home ketone test to see if a sweetener is stopping your fat-burning
• Why salt can raise blood sugar even though it is not sweet
• Answers on fruit, cheese, caffeine, cortisol, and recurring UTIs

Timestamps

• 2:15 — What counts as a sweetener, and why we crave sweet
• 2:56 — Sweet, salt, and fat: how food is engineered to taste good
• 4:57 — The story of the bear: six months of berries, six months of fasting
• 6:55 — How rising insulin tells your body to store fat, not burn it
• 8:40 — The way out: burning fat without a six-month fast
• 9:20 — Why the sweet taste alone can trigger insulin
• 10:53 — The hummingbird that eats twice its weight in sugar a day
• 12:14 — Allulose: the natural sugar that may not spike insulin
• 14:54 — Stevia: why the research is mixed
• 15:33 — Aspartame and diet soda, and your fat-burning
• 17:16 — How to measure ketones with pharmacy keto sticks
• 17:50 — Sucralose, and why it bothers some people
• 19:07 — Monk fruit, honey, and agave nectar ranked
• 21:12 — Coconut, maple, and date sugar are all just sucrose
• 42:28 — How salt raises blood sugar even without carbs
• 52:34 — Does caffeine affect diabetics?

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• Fiber Greens
• Diabetes Solution Kit

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