What Happens To Your Body When You Stop Drinking Soda

0:00 what would happen to your body if you stopped drinking soda if you're a soda drinkler on the regular diet or regular soda occasional what happens to the system from a doctor's perspective physiology inside of your organs inside your body when you quit that known bad habit number one there's going to be a weight loss when you drink a sugary liquid like a soda or even a diet soda it's putting in empty calories but it does not add to your satiety the feeling of fullness so I oftentimes soda drinkers go back to that well to that Vice multiple times a day it doesn't fill you up but you're taking in an incredible amount of sugar or of chemicals we'll talk about diet soda in a moment and it doesn't give you the full feeling in fact it ends up leading

0:45 to significant weight gain over time even if it is a diet version drink because it makes you want to eat so when you were drinking the soda your calorie intake is going to be higher let alone the amount of high fructose corn syrup and sugar going into the system that's going to create fattiness on the liver is the number one cause of fatty liver disease which is exploding in the world right now because of overweightness because of obesity primarily driven by excess soda so you're going to lose weight almost instantly within the first week a pound two pounds three pounds I've seen joint pains and things disappear we're going to talk about that in a moment but number one out of the gates the impact it has on how much you eat how full you feel and the waistline now I need to re-mention number two because the more soda you drink the more

1:31 fructose you take in less it's a diet version but then you're taking in chemicals so chemicals and fructose when they hit the liver the body has a problem keeping up because they're so dense they're so sugar Laden it's got to either burn it up which we're not moving enough to do that then it's got to store it triglycerides are going to go through the roof which can impact your heart health and it's going to start storing fat the first place it stores it is the liver so liver fat builds up from those chemical from that sugar that's a major problem for fluid in your body your heart let alone your overall health because you start having your chemical detoxifier working less efficiently now number three when that fatty liver starts to form fat is going to start to form more around the visceral organs

2:16 drinking soda skyrockets the amount of fat around the organ so when you cut it out you might not see the waistline disappear quite as fast but from an underneath perspective around your small intestine large intestine liver and heart that fat is going to start melting away visceral fat is what causes chronic disease let alone skin fat cutaneous fat on the surface that we don't like the look of it's the organ fat that gets you into a lot of toxic problems Studies have linked soda drinking directly to more visceral fats you're going to start losing fat around the organs your blood is going to begin to change number one you're going to see the triglyceride levels go down if you have a high triglyceride problem or cholesterol issue cutting out soda you're going to see cholesterol levels go down you're

3:03 also going to see insulin and blood sugar of course go down why does that matter well that drives metabolic syndrome high blood pressure high triglycerides high cholesterol diabetes heart failure your reduction in all of those is going to be significant because there's going to be way less sugar floating around in your blood insulin is going to come down which is going to take you out of sugar storage fat storage mode and increase fat burning mode next for every can of soda that you cut out each day even if you can't get completely off of it for each can you're going to reduce your type 2 diabetes risk by 1.1 percent shows the research each can is a one percent reduction so if you're drinking five or ten cans a day you are increasing your risk of

3:48 Diabetes by ten percent so just start to narrow it down and maybe you can't quit cold turkey but every can counts a lot when it comes to a huge disease killer of type 2 diabetes in this world number six your energy and your nutrient content is going to go up you're not having those sugary crashes that happen with taking in that much sugar and soda is an anti-nutrient so not only does it not provide you any nutrients it takes up the space of other ones now you're going to be able to absorb more nutrients into your body what's that going to do to your energy what's that going to do to the health of your organs what's that going to do to your cell production and the Aging look of your body speaking of the Aging look to the body and the organ Health specifically your heart is going to be impacted studies show that but just reducing one

4:34 can a day is gonna have a 20 reduction in heart disease long term especially in men forty thousand percent study it was men done in this study they increased their heart disease risk by 20 percent by just one sugary drink one can of soda each day a 20 reduction for every can you cut out you can do this here's a little more incentive another massive study 60 000 adults if you drink two or more sodas a day your cancer risk was 87 percent higher in the pancreas it's so hard on the insulin on the blood sugar controller of your pancreas 87 increased risk so if you cut out two cans of soda a day you are lowering your pancreatic

5:20 cancer risk by 87 percent your joints are going to thank you inflammation goes down with the less sugar that you put into your system however gout tied to acid produced in the body very painful hurts big toe joints around the system so much acid builds up in the body a huge source of acid is soda so soda the drinkers have a 75 percent increased chance of having gout so when you cut out soda and stop drinking it your risk of gout goes down 75 that's going to save you a lot of pain and finally smile I know you might not want to cut out the Habit however by reducing the amount of soda you drink has a significant impact on the health of your teeth it decays

6:06 away the teeth the enamel and the protective layers of it because of its acidity which makes for a lot of cavities long term a lot of dental work and you just can't get that back you can't get that restored you can get implants but it's never the same again protecting your smile protecting your teeth goes significantly up when you cut out the soda now however this is not an easy job because Studies have proven that soda can be as addictive as drugs to the brain there's a physical addiction and the act of knowing you're going to do it the dopamine hit that starts to hit knowing you're going to have the next one so there's a very addictive nature to it you have to replace your routine you have to disconnect the neural Pathways that give you that happiness reaching for that coke or that Pepsi or that Mountain Dew you need something else to reach for so

6:51 one you may just say well I'm going to cut out all the sugar because I want to go diet soda bad idea the chemicals in diet soda actually have been proven to increase weight gain so you gain more weight by drinking skinnier diet versions of things those chemicals those Nutra sweets and the artificial sweeteners in them are really hard on gut health destroys the microbiome which is going to make your gut leaky over time that's going to mean more chemicals and more toxins in your bloodstream which is the primary driver of autoimmune diseases so if you have a lupus a thyroid autoimmune condition and itis arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis in your body the last thing you would want to drink is a diet version of a soda those sodas are still incredibly hard on the teeth because of the acid content and the chemical content they increase the risk of

7:37 headaches so a lot of people dealing with migraine headaches or headaches in general all because of those chemicals in there they build up in the system and they trigger neurological responses diet sodas are also harmful on your bones one study of 17 000 people showed that drinking diet soda regularly decreased bone density and increased fracture risk so if you have osteoporosis or osteopenia those are going to get better by cutting out the diet soda diet sodas still have the direct link to heart disease risk in fact drinking two or more per day increases your heart disease risk so cutting out the diet soda is going to be heart healthy and decrease that risk and finally you cut out all the sugar when you drink diet soda but you add in oftentimes aspartame aspartame there's a lot of research mounting against it these artificial

8:22 sweeteners what it does to our bodies are harmed from it number one out of the gates it creates immune damage and oxidative stress that's going to result in extra inflammation being in your body we talked about what it does to the joints and it starts to destroy the gut microbiome that's going to have a direct impact on your mood in fact three prominent studies show that the higher amounts of aspartame diet soda that goes into your diet higher amount of depression that you experience cutting out diet sodas is going to make you happier the chemical makes up of aspartame actually can accumulate in the blood and it increases risk of hereditary blood disorders because of those chemicals is floating around the system it's also really hard on the liver so cleaner blood cleaner liver when you're cutting out these diet sodas if that wasn't enough there's a 2012

9:09 study that linked diet sodas directly to non-hopkins lymphoma which obviously involving the blood the white blood cells the inflammation in the system it just makes the system go Haywire because these chemicals are so powerful seizures are linked to it obviously we talked about headaches being linked to it fibromyalgia has been linked to it so by cutting out one simple thing soda and diet soda you're reducing so many different chronic diseases so if you've hooked on soda you've made the switch to diet soda hopefully I've talked about the benefits of breaking that habit what can you drink What can you replace it with going cold turkey could be extremely addictive in fact studies show that it can be addictive as drugs diet soda or a soda physically of an addiction you have a neural pathway of that habit that dopamine hit getting

9:54 excited thinking about your Pepsi or Mountain Dew or your Coca-Cola that you're going to go grab so there's a neural pathway etched into your brain for that dopamine hit like a drug and it's you have that pathway entrenched ingrained into your daily activity how do we begin to break it what are some other drinks that might suffice The Taste and the Habit so you don't kind of eases the pain of coming off of this for so many people that are addicted to it in a simple Amazon store link and so my wife and I the beautiful nurse living good put together just like simple drinks that we would maybe have in our house or would consider we don't make any of these but here's some ones you might look at for those that like something added to your water this is a Stevia based one that you could look there's a couple of teas on here uh there's a ollipop and this is one that our we let our kids have it's got some

10:41 good probiotics got kind of a sparkliness to it kind of got a soda feel to it so you may try one of those out we do a lot of sparkling water Spindrift is one of our favorites and so it's got you know a variety of different tastes you can kind of suffice that something different than water water is obviously going to be the number one and if we keep going down here poppies is sort of a sparkling Prebiotic soda you're getting some benefit to the gut as opposed to taking away from it and then finally Zevia and so Zevia is a Stevia sweet and if you're sensitive to Stevia then this might not be a goat no-go but I like this a lot better from a perspective of choosing one of these as opposed to a soda sweetened to Stevia you're not going to have the calories it's non-GMO so we're not getting that impact this might be a decent solution

11:27 for helping you to get off the soda the diet soda if you're not into just like coffees teas but there's a few options that I wanted to give you like what can you have instead so check out azevia check out an ollipop check out a poppy reach for a sparkling water you can do this you can break this addiction it is a habit but you got to get to the roots of it you can't just cut a branch off the tree you got to dig down into the roots of why so addicted to that what's the feeling it gives you what is it sufficing it is certainly taking significant amounts away from your health whether it's regular or diet and you can break that habit it is well worth it with all the benefits of when you stop drinking soda so if you need more help with this I'll put that Amazon link below so you can just see some examples I even put in here a video to

12:14 go to the grocery store to walk through drinks with you or actually pull them off the shelf and show them some of the benefits to give you more options to break this and finally if you want to learn more about like what if I cut out other Foods in my diet what does it do like meat or even only eating meat or I got a whole series of these and I put that video right here for you enjoy