 Hey guys welcome to sugar MD diabetes channel. I am Dr. Ahmet Ergin. I'm an undocked knowledge as a diabetes specialist and today we are talking about why do diabetics crave sugar. Let's get to the bottom of it. Let's get started. Hi guys, thank you for watching quickly. I have a quiz for you in the description below. So after you watch this video take the quiz, answer the questions, the more questions you answer correctly, the higher the chance and one in three will win a chapter from my book. It's gonna be delivered electronically to you. A real chapter from my the ultimate diabetes book. So go ahead finish the video, take the quiz and win. So guys you probably are like you know what I hate my life. I'm a diabetic. I know I need to eat less carbs and sweets but damn I love those things man. It's just I crave it. I love it and I feel like I can eat the whole world. I will still not be feeling full. Or I feel like I gotta have that dessert after dinner man. I have to have it. Otherwise I feel like I'm missing something. Or during the day you're gonna be like oh my god I'm like this excessive hunger is hitting me. What am I gonna do? I feel like I have to eat something. I have to carry some candy, some cookies, something right? Well, well here's the reason. So when you have diabetes, actually it starts with insulin resistance but when you have diabetes especially, your blood sugars rise right? That's why we call those diabetes. Now your body creates this new threshold, new set. It's like an alcoholism or smoking habit right? So your body wants to have that glucose level once you get there right? So if you are financially today here and 10 years from now you have some good business going. You're up here. If you go back there your wife is gonna be like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa what's going on here honey right? So you're gonna say the same thing whoa whoa whoa I cannot drive that car anymore. So we are just designed that way. You know we set a threshold and that threshold when it changes your body feels a difference and that brings the cravings. Just like when you're if you're an alcoholic you know you feel like if you don't drink for a couple hours you feel like you didn't drink it to get your levels the same. Now what else? Another important mechanism in diabetes is that after blood sugar hits like 200 to 20 level your kidneys are like the fire department. It comes into play and says no no no no no this is too much sugar. We are getting rid of that. This is not staying with you. And then you can remember if you're still having high blood sugars you probably have it but if you don't you will remember those days when you were kind of living half time in the restroom trying to pee your guts out because your blood sugars were so high you know sometimes my patients come in like they're in the room and waiting for 10 minutes and they're already trying to go to the restroom I'm like okay so because they go to the restroom like pretty much every two hours sometimes right because if their blood sugar is high that's what happens. So these are new patients not my established patients don't get me wrong okay so but the bottom line is you know you're losing all this sugar what you're gonna do and then remember that threshold so so you have this threshold okay so now you're making more money but then suddenly you know money is being leaked from somewhere you know you let's say your partner is stealing your money or or somebody you know you have a crack in your budget but you don't really know whether that money is getting lost and you feel like you have to make more and more money to kind of pay the bill that's what your body is trying to do you know your cravings come to you because you're losing sugar in the urine and and then your blood sugar was 220 and then your your kidneys trying to pull it down and your your body wants to keep it at 220 because you have you have hit that threshold before and then as a result you feel like it's a vicious cycle you want to eat carbs now what is the solution we'll talk about that in the next video and I hope that was effective guys and a few other things we just came to my mind before before you go as sugar cravings also has some to do with the psychological addiction to the sugar if you have this habits of coming home and having a dessert after every night you know that psychological missing on the carbohydrates or sweets can may force you to reach out to those sweets and not also not only that of course you know those sweets actually will make you kind of feel better temporarily and then later you feel like sh it right but temporarily it gives you this endorphins the serotonin that the the reward mechanisms are like coming to life it's like a you know the lights are lighting up in the thing go wow that's good that feels good and then later the lethargic kicks in the you know the brain fog and all that stuff comes in you're like what did I do same thing with any addiction right so it feels good and then later you crash and then you feel like you need to get it back there and then it's a vicious cycle so yes it makes you feel good and as a result it creates the addiction sugar is the biggest addiction you can think of as I said you know once that wants to hit that threshold so the best thing is to avoid growing there at all right so but these are the most common reasons that people with diabetes end up being addicted to sugar and in the next video we will talk about how to overcome that hey guys I hope you're enjoying this channel so far and I hope you subscribed already if you didn't do it and if you did watch this video right there I think that will help you too