# How Refined Carbohydrates Affect Blood and Brain Sugar

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- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:48
- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hnGLunYIJxVQ/en/how-refined-carbohydrates-affect-blood-and-brain-sugar) Let's say you're eating too many of the wrong carbohydrates too often.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hnGLunYIJxVQ/en/how-refined-carbohydrates-affect-blood-and-brain-sugar?t=3) So let's say that you've just had a nice big bowl of cereal for breakfast, or a sweetened yogurt, or a glass of juice, and or, or a bagel, and you take in...

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hnGLunYIJxVQ/en/how-refined-carbohydrates-affect-blood-and-brain-sugar?t=14) So what you're doing is you're taking in quite a bit of refined carbohydrate.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hnGLunYIJxVQ/en/how-refined-carbohydrates-affect-blood-and-brain-sugar?t=18) So these are naked glucose molecules that turn instantly into a tsunami of glucose in the bloodstream.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hnGLunYIJxVQ/en/how-refined-carbohydrates-affect-blood-and-brain-sugar?t=25) Those glucose molecules will cause an, a steep exaggerated spike in your blood glucose levels after, after you eat or drink those, those, uh, those foods or beverages.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hnGLunYIJxVQ/en/how-refined-carbohydrates-affect-blood-and-brain-sugar?t=37) And that gets passed on to the brain. So every time your blood sugar spikes, uh, your brain sugar also spikes.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hnGLunYIJxVQ/en/how-refined-carbohydrates-affect-blood-and-brain-sugar?t=44) The higher the blood sugar, the higher the brain sugar