Ingredient Library

Refined Sugar

Drives blood sugar spikes, feeds harmful gut bacteria, and promotes systemic inflammation.

  • sugar
  • inflammatory
  • gut-disruptor

Refined sugar — including white sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, and other added sugars — rapidly raises blood glucose, triggering insulin spikes and subsequent energy crashes. Chronically high sugar intake feeds pathogenic gut bacteria, suppresses beneficial species, and promotes systemic low-grade inflammation. It is strongly linked to mood instability, fatigue, skin issues, and metabolic dysfunction.

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