They're Lying About 'Healthy' Foods & Sugar! Shocking New Research That's Harming You

With your diet during pregnancy, you're

programming your baby's DNA. And this is

going to have an impact on your baby's

development and on their future risk of

disease. And there's a lot of pregnant

moms who are eating a diet that's not

giving them the nutrients their baby

needs. This is not the mom's fault. This

is the fault of our food system. This is

the fault of society. And nobody's

telling moms about this. And I wanted to

create this guide to help parents

navigate that food system and see easy

things they can do to help their baby's

development. And I know this because as

a biochemist when I became pregnant, I

just went deep, deep, deep into the

research. And there are some main things

that I learned. For example, 90% of moms

are not getting enough choline during

pregnancy. And choline is super

important. It forms your baby's brain in

the womb. So this is the amount of eggs

that I ate per week during the 9 months

of pregnancy because this is the

simplest way to give enough choline to

our baby. And then your baby needs no

fructose during pregnancy. So sugar from

dessert, from chocolate, from muffins,

from cupcakes, your baby needs none of

this. Because if you have very high

glucose levels [music] during pregnancy,

scientists have found that your baby's

DNA will have epigenetic switches that

are programming them towards having a

higher vulnerability to develop

diabetes, obesity, and psychiatric

disorders. Next, this is basically the

amount of protein that I needed to eat

every single day in the third trimester

of pregnancy.

>> Yeah. because the studies show low

protein diets [music] lead to smaller

babies and potentially this epigenetic

programming of staying smaller

throughout life. And it's findings like

that that led me to create a plan and

simple hacks for pregnant moms and we

can talk about them.

>> And then what does the research say

about breastfeeding, exercise, caffeine

and also do you recommend that mothers

take certain supplements? [music]

>> So this is what people need to know.

>> [music]

>> Jesse Inchospay, the glucose goddess.

For people that don't know who you are,

what have you spent the best part of the

last decade committing your life to and

why?

>> My work started in the glucose space,

meaning the blood sugar space. I was

showing people how blood sugar impacts

all of us on a daily basis. the spikes

and dips after we eat, they lead to

inflammation, faster aging, cravings,

fatigue, and it's been the basis of my

work because glucose matters for

everybody and it is the core of a

healthy body and mind. And so that's

where I started because it's so

important.

>> We last spoke almost two years ago now.

>> What have you learned in those last two

years that has evolved your own thinking

or has developed your own thinking in

any way? If we reflect on the last

conversations we had around glucose

spikes and sugar and the health

consequences and diets, is there

anything you've learned in those two

years that is interesting and new?

>> Oh, absolutely. I think mostly the

impact of glucose on mood and on

relationships. For example, there's this

fascinating study that took married

couples and they gave the husband and

the wives a little voodoo doll

representing their spouse. And the

researchers told uh the participants to

put a little pin in the voodoo doll

every time their spouse annoyed them. At

the end of the two weeks, the

researchers counted the number of pins

in the voodoo dolls. And they also

measured the participants glucose

levels. They found that the people who

had the most glucose lows had put the

most pins in the voodoo doll

representing their spouse.

>> Wow.

>> So, it's just an association, but it's

interesting. And scientists then found

that when you have very unsteady glucose

levels, it impacts this neurotransmitter

in your brain called tyrrosine that

manages your mood. So it seems that with

unsteady glucose levels, your mood is

less stable, which could then correlate

to you being more annoyed at your

spouse. So I think studies like this

have really blown my mind.

>> What's going on when we go through a

glucose crash, per se?

>> So glucose is your body's energy. So

your brain is constantly monitoring how

much glucose do we have in our

bloodstream. And steady glucose is

great. When your glucose levels crash,

this indicates biologically that you're

out of fuel. And this is a powerful

signal to your body and your brain to

say, "Alert, alert. We need food. We

need more glucose." And so it creates

all these downstream consequences on

your mood. You become hangry. All you

think about is food. You're in a bad

mood. You're like, "I need to eat

something." You look for a banana. You

look for a cookie. It can also activate

the craving center in your brain that

says, "Stephen, go find some chocolate."

And science has shown this. Low glucose

levels creates a cascade of consequences

on how we feel and what we seek. Now,

what's interesting is that back in the

day when we had low glucose levels, I'm

talking like huntergatherer times, they

wouldn't arrive so quickly because we

didn't have these big spikes that then

led to these big drastic drops. It was

more we ate in a more balanced way with

less sugar obviously. So when our

glucose became low, it was a bit more

gradual. Today, because we have access

to all this sugar, we can spike our

glucose very quickly and as a result, it

then crashes very quickly. So the

effects are pretty much immediate and

they're very intense. All of a sudden,

you go from feeling okay to your brain

being in alert mode. We need to find

more fuel. So we've disregulated our

glucose levels to the point where it's

impacting us in a very unnatural way.

>> Is that in part because we modify our

food, even fruit? When I looked back

through the history of fruit, apples,

bananas, etc., looked extremely

different before they were modified to

be juicier and sweeter, etc.

>> Completely. It's like dogs. So, all the

the dog breeds today, from Chihuahua to

golden retrievers, they all come from

wolves. Humans have been breeding wolves

together to create these different

species of dogs. They all have that

ancestor of the grey wolf. So, humans

are very good at breeding natural things

to serve their purposes. And when it

comes to fruit, it's the same thing. So,

as you say, if you compare like an

ancestral banana or an ancestral apple

to a modern one, they look completely

different. And you should pull up these

photos. They're fascinating. Ancestral

banana, tiny, full of fiber, full of

seeds, not very sweet. And then, modern

banana, full of sugar, low in fiber,

really easy to eat. So, that's the first

thing people need to know about fruit.

Fruit is not natural. Fruit is the

product of human engineering. However, a

piece of whole fruit also contains fiber

and water. So even though it's been bred

to have a lot of sugar, the fiber in the

water reduce how quickly the sugar

arrives in our bloodstream, making it

more or less okay for us. But the

problem comes when we denature that

piece of fruit. Meaning if we remove the

fiber, for example, if we take an orange

and make an orange juice, what are we

actually talking about here? Actually,

oranges are not even a natural fruit.

They were invented thousands of years

ago by breeding by crossing other

species of fruit. To make an orange

juice, you throw away part of the

orange. you throw away the solid part,