Lesson 14: Managing Leftover Toxins - Slide 24
The Brain Depends On Glucose Or Sugar For Energy
- When blood glucose levels drop abruptly, the brain signals distress through symptoms such as mental confusion, headaches, irritability, nervousness, depression and an intense craving for alcohol or high sugar foods
- If you eat foods with high sugar
content, the blood sugar rises
steeply, temporarily
relieving the symptoms
- What goes up must come
down and the cycle
repeats and the
symptoms return
Notes:
Pg. 309 “Teens Under The Influence, The Truth About Kids, Alcohol, and Other Drugs-How to Recognize the Problem and What to Do About It,” Katherine Ketcham and Nicholas A. Pace, MD, Ballentine Books, New York, 2003.
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