0:00 you know when I was in high school I was lifting weights and I wanted to bulk up so I went to the healis store and I bought these muscle Gainer protein powders right and I started consuming them and man that I feel like crap and now I know why because there's one ingredient that is pretty dangerous and they put this certain ingredient into these products to enhance muscle growth but you're going to find out it's not going to do that personally I think it's a very dangerous ingredient it can increase acne bloating inflammation in the gut mental irritability and anxiety insomnia it's highly addictive because it increases dopamine which is like the reward uh neurotransmitter and it'll actually produce more acid in your mouth to promote cavities but the worst thing
0:47 it'll do it'll spike your blood sugar so high way more than sugar and then create a crash right after now if you do this repetitively you're going to develop belly fat high cholesterol and you know a fatty liver other than that I'm sure it's going to be fine and this ingredient is usually the first ingredient in the list on the label which means it represents most of the product and this ingredient is called molto dextrin this is one of the worst ingredients in most ultr processed food products AKA junk food where they start out with Dent corn what's Dent corn Dent corn is a inedible you can't eat it okay it's it's for feed and things like that they grind it up into powder and then
1:32 they add acids and alkaline chemicals to it and then they'll heat it up they'll put pressure into it then they have to take the color out take the odor out and then you end up with this powder and what's wild about maltodextrin is that it's a filler it's just some cheap material to add bulk to a product so they can make more money I mean there's absolutely no benefit to taking this for your body it's classified as a carbohydrate but it acts like a sugar so when you're reading the label you're looking oh yeah it's low in sugar take a look on the glycemic index which is the index that shows you how much an ingredient spikes your blood sugar table sugar is about 65 glucose is 100
2:18 maltodextrin is between 105 and 185 on that scale so it creates way more of a spike than even glucose and check this out in one serving they're going to put 253 G now in your mind you're going well okay it's 253 G of carbs no it's not it's 253 g of sugar which is equivalent to 60 tpoon of sugar this is just in one serving 1,2 calories of sugar actually it's something that's even worse than sugar you're going to put in your body to supposedly bulk up your muscles I mean preserving they're only going to give you 50 grams of protein as whey protein and 253 grams of carbohydrate of sugar
3:05 right it's not a good ratio I mean you don't want to combine protein with that much starch or or sugar because it creates all sorts of issues in your body so when you dump that much carbohydrate into the energy Factory called the mitochondria your demand for certain vitamins are going to go super super high like for B1 for example you're gonna need a lot of B1 to allow your body to metabolize that much pure sugar of course they add some vitamins in there but they only add like4 milligrams of B1 that's not going to even come in the ballpark of how much you need so what happens is you end up depleting your nutrients when you take this much refined carbohydrate I mean
3:51 just think about what this starch really is it's Ultra processed which means they're extracting enzymes vitamins bra minerals when you consume that it takes a lot of uh nutrient reserves that you have in your body to be able to even metabolize that so you end up depleting things down the road when you can keep consuming it and in the process you're creating a lot of what's called oxidation which is kind of like you're rusting your body out from the inside out and that's going to lead to inflammation and you not knowing that not even realizing you're getting that much sugar you might think oh yeah it's it's a great product it's because everyone else is doing it it's become normalized it doesn't even fit the definition of the word food so it can't
4:36 even be called alter processed food because it it can't sustain life you can't live on it so you can imagine what's happening to the pancreas too because every time you consume that it's like a massive Spike of blood sugars and that cell that makes this is pumping out of this insulin it's just going to be like whiplashed every time you take it and you're going to find that after you take it you're going to feel kind of groggy blood sugars kind of feel funky next morning hard to get out of bed and you wake up with low blood sugar because you ate sugar the day before which will cause you to want more of that to fulfill this emptiness but then you keep doing this over weeks and months and now what happens is the body's going to start developing something called insulin resistance and now it's going to be harder and harder to get energy into
5:22 the cells and it's going to be harder to grow your muscles to grow muscles you need exercise you need protein nowhere have I ever observed that you need high doses of refined sugar to grow muscle yes it increases insulin and insulin is an anabolic hormone but the problem is when you start to stimulate insulin over a period of time you develop what's called insulin resistance and that's what really creates a deficiency of insulin because you develop this resistance it's just part of the body trying to protect itself from getting that much sugar it'll start blocking it because sugar is toxic so if you haven't seen my full video on how to grow muscle the healthy way I'm going to put this video up right here check it
6:07 out if you had to pick the worst ingredient on the planet what would you pick I'm talking about an ingredient that's in a lot of foods not some band dangerous chemical but some ingredient that is very pervasive in our Foods what would you pick go ahead and type it down in the comments section the ingredient that I'm to talk about is much much higher on the glycemic index than glucose now what is the glycemic index it it is a scale that measures how fast a carbohydrate is absorbed and spikes your blood sugar so at 100 you have glucose okay so that's pretty high right now glucose is a
6:54 monosaccharide okay it's just one sugar when you combine two different sugars like glucose and fructose you get sucrose that's table sugar okay and because fructose is lower on the glycemic index it's going to pull the glycemic index down a bit to roughly about 72 that's a d saccharide now saccharide means sugar and Dy means two and then glucose is a monosaccharide it's just one sugar so the reason why I'm talking about the disaccharide or the monosaccharide is because this ingredient is a polysaccharide which means many different sugars that are combined however this polysaccharide is a lot worse than glucose even though it's a polysaccharide so it is the ingredient
7:41 that is the highest on the glycemic index I don't know of any other ingredient that's higher than this thing I'm going to tell you and that ingredient is molto dextrin okay now molto dextrin doesn't sound that bad like molto well that sounds pretty natural and dextrin it doesn't end with o like all the sugars end with like glucose fructose so dextrin doesn't sound like a sugar but maltodextrin behaves like a sugar but it's not classified as a sugar so here's the problem when you read the label okay if something has maltodextrin in it it does not have to be classified as a sugar okay it's classified under the
8:28 total hydrates so this can be very misleading because you don't know how much sugar that's in that product so somehow manufacturing companies came up with this loophole because they know a lot of people are against this added sugar and so even on their website certain chemical companies that make mulle dextrum actually use it as a marketing thing this is what it said on one of their websites many soft drinks and other flavored beverages contain maltodextrin in their formulas so they can have a lowered amount of sugar on the nutritional facts label wow that is a great marketing strategy so the problem with multiex is that it behaves like sugar yet it's not listed as sugar so it's in a lot of different foods and you're not being notified you're not
9:14 being aware of how much sugar you're actually consuming now the reason why multo dextrin is higher on the glycemic index than glucose is because it has a much faster absorption rate in your stomach apparently the enzymes act on this man-made synthetic sugar like carbohydrate much faster than actual glucose and so yes it is a man-made synthetic sugar it's made with high Heats it's made with chemicals it's made with acids so it's a highly processed carbohydrate that is extremely inexpensive you could get at a wholesale cost like 30 gram of maltodextrin for Less than a penny now you're probably
10:01 thinking well uh I don't consume mulu it's not in any of my Foods well I'm just going to list some of the foods that it's in um it's in supplements okay big time it's in even the natural flavorings I had to really work hard to find a company that flavored our some of our nutritional products that did not contain MTO dextrin and unfortunately those flavorings were a lot more expensive than the ones that had the maltodextrin when you buy Herbal formulas that are extracts like they'll say I don't know galoba or turmeric and it says like 10:1 or 5:1 extract usually they're using molod duin as a drying agent to turn it into a powder even
10:47 Stevia when they turn into a powder many times is made with molto dextrin so here you are trying to do low carb when you're getting a lot of carbohydrate but of course it's only listed in the total carbohydrates not the added sugars even powders that are made from oil like MCT oil and even like certain fish oil powders okay now I have a cod liver oil powder that does not use multex it's the only one out there that doesn't use it and it took me a long time to find the company that didn't use the multex performance gels so let's say you're going to do a longdistance marathon okay and you need that little gel pack to give you that car hydrate energy to keep going well the first ingredient
11:33 maltodextrin so as an athlete I don't think you want to take something super high on the glycemic index to start spiking your insulin then you have the energy drinks okay the protein powders the electrolyte powders many of them have this added maltodextrin even in the vitamin forms as it forms like citrates like potassium citrate or magnesium citrate the infant formulas the infant Foods unfortunately have maltodextrin the weight gain formulas lot of times the first ingredient is maltodextrin but if you look at the label it's low in sugars it's very high in carbohydrate because they don't have the lious sugars beer has mulle dextrin
12:18 thus the beer belly animal feeds have molto dextrin many keto products have this hidden maltodextrin which by the way I'm going to be putting a list on my website very very soon and I'm working very quickly on this so you can have a list of what foods have mulle dextrin and what foods do not because sometimes they sneak it in there a great majority of the diet products out there the diet powders the diet protein bars are loaded with maltodextrin many of the soups that you consume desserts have maltodextrin ice creams cereals snack products and even intravenous nutrition the IVs that they'll get people to rehydrate them have multiex
13:05 sauces medications so maltodextrin is very pervasive in our food supply unfortunately it's used to give the it's called the mouth feel it gives a very smooth texture so it makes it feel good in your mouth it's also used as a volume enhancer as a filler just to increase the volume like I said before they use it as a spray to dry certain things both oils and proteins and and even nutrition unfortunately it's been used as a fat replacer for certain diet foods because they want it lowfat right and so they can put this in there because it actually gives you the texture of fat when it's really a carbohydrate but now they're using
13:51 maltodextrin in a different form okay it's called resistant maltodextrin it's like a resistant star they change the chemistry from this starch to a fiber however a lot of the research that has been done on this is been done from industry and I just don't trust the results right now it's kind of an experiment uh there's a big difference between consuming synthetic man-made fiber and fiber from vegetables like celery or salad so now you're going to see a lot of information on these functional food fibers that are now considered health foods and they're in a lot of Keto Foods as corn fiber tapioca
14:38 fiber and they're called resistant maltodextrin so who knows if they're GMO or not or if they have traces of chemicals and there's not a lot of information on the manufacturing process personally I'm going to get my fiber from actual vegetables and as I was studying about this topic I found multex is also classified as an insecticide go figure and the other big problem with Molin is it depletes nutrition you see anytime you have a carbohydrate or a sugar and you consume it without nutrients in order to metabolize that carbohydrate it takes nutrients B vitamins calcium potassium things like that and so when you're consuming a lot of refined carbohydrate it's going to
15:24 deplete your reserve of nutrients so you end up with less nutrition if you're consuming these carbohydrates and all this boils down to a much greater spike in insulin which is behind so many health problems so personally I'm going to stay away from mdex it's they're really doing an experiment on people the jury is still out on the resistant starch uh time will tell but it's very difficult if not impossible to find an independent study to truly evaluate the so-called health benefits of multile dextrin now if you have not seen my video on the glycemic index and something called the glycemic load I put that video up right here check it out
