The Secret Life of Sugar in Your Body, Part 2 - The Sweets We Eat

When our relationship with sugar is a negative or detrimental one, we often cannot leave it alone. One of the hallmarks of sugar sensitivity, then, is the inability to stop eating it once you've started.

In my NAET practice, I've noticed that many patients remark, after the sugar treatment, that whereas before the treatment they could never walk past a plate of sweets without grazing (heavily), after the treatment, it didn't matter how delicious the sweets were, they just weren't as interested. They might have one, but were perfectly able to stop.

Although sugar is a naturally occurring substance, its use in contemporary junk food is far from natural. Corn syrup, and its lethal cousin, high fructose corn syrup, combine regularly with sugar in candy, baked goods, and soda to wreak havoc on our pancreas and pad our bellies with flab. As we move further and further away from a simple natural diet-and by that I mean, from proteins, carbohydrates, fruits, and vegetables to meals consisting of protein bars, diet soda, and fast food-it is no wonder that our brains are suffering: with attention problems, dementia, metabolic disorders, and mood issues.

Further complicating the issue with sugar is the role of emotions. "I would never crave sugar," one of my patients remarked, "if my job wasn't so stressful." Many of us echo her sentiment...with a twist: "If my kids weren't so out of control," "if I didn't have so much stress," "if..." And we crave it because it delivers so beautifully, every time spiking our blood sugar with a rush that rivals a runner's high...or any other high, for that matter.

So what can you possibly do, given the environmental and chemical constraints that push you toward sugar cravings? The best way to combat sugar issues is to balance them. BodyTalk, a branch of energy medicine-and the fastest growing healthcare system in the world-determines where the communication in the body has broken down, and then restores the communication energetically. Each person has a unique body chemistry. Therefore, there can be no one set way to balance sugar. For one person, the problem might lie in the liver. For another individual, an imbalance in brain chemistry may be the cause of their sugar problems. Someone else could have a problem in the pancreas. Each person has symptoms of sugar imbalances, but must be treated in a completely different manner. Unless we understand exactly where the problem lies, we cannot expect to treat them successfully. BodyTalk, with its unique system of biofeedback, provides the structure necessary for communication with the body-mind complex.

In my clinical practice, I have found the sugar treatment to be a pivotal point in treating many cases of diabetes, addiction, and autoimmune disorders, as well as other complaints ranging from TMJ to fibromyalgia. Again, each case is unique in its root cause as well as the specific route of treatment. However, sugar always plays a key role in each treatment. Once we change the relationship with sugar, each individual seems to be more able to manage his or her own relationship with both the outside world and the chemical processes of the body. This ability to modulate information, both within and without, marks a new ability to maintain health, and this is the key to healing.