What happens when you drink a coke?

• Within the first 10 minutes you’ll get 10 teaspoons of 100% sugar. Normally you would vomit from consuming this extremely sweet sugar, however they add phosphoric acid to cut down the flavor so you won’t puke (yum).
• After 20 minutes, your blood sugar will spike, your insulin will spike and you liver will respond by turning this sugar into fat, to save for a later time of need (most of us want the opposite)
• After 40 minutes, the caffeine will be absorbed and your pupils will dilate along with a rise in blood pressure. Now your liver will dump more sugar into the body.
• This will stimulate, your adrenal glands, which acts like a back up generator for the other hormones. This makes you prone to burn out, insomnia and early menopause and andropause (male menopause).
• After 45 minutes, your dopamine production will increase, which will make you feel good. This rises to a similar degree as it does from heroine.
• After 60 minutes, you crash…now you go for another one, or a coffee or some other sweets and run through this all again.
• You have now consumed 150 calories, 30-55mg of caffeine, a bunch of sugar and some other fun stuff.
• If you’re drinking diet coke, or soda, you will be consuming artificial sweeteners, which will actually increase your craving for more food and has also caused cancer in lab rats.
• The phosphoric acid will also interfere with your body’s ability to use calcium, which will make you prone to getting osteoporosis. It does this by neutralizing your stomach acid.
If you’re looking to break this cycle, I have something for you.
I’ll tell you more about this next week.
Dr. Hashimoto
760-777-8377