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Managing Glucose Levels for Long Life with Jessie Inchauspe | Cookware Do’s & Don’t's w/ Dr. G | Heal Thy Self with Dr. G | Episode #207

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

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How to Eat Sugar on an Empty Stomach

If you eat sugar on an empty stomach, it goes super quickly into your bloodstream. On the other hand, if you have that same sugar after a meal, what happens? You're still getting the dopamine from the sweet food. But because there's other stuff in your stomach, those glucose molecules are just going to sort of stay on top and make their way more slowly into your intestine and then intoYour bloodstream. And that's really key. Like, if we're able to give glucose molecules to our body more slowly, like, less intensely, less quickly, the concentration of glucose in our blood rises more slowly.

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