Sugar and it's effects on your immune system
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Sugar!!
60 mins after eating sugar….
What happens in your body when you have even just a small amount of sugar??
0-15 minutes
The first part of your body that feels the effects is, of course, teeth and gums. Sugar mixes with bacteria in saliva, which forms an acid that attacks teeth enamel
15- 30 mins
Once the sugar has passed through the stomach, it then hits the small intestine, which gets broken down and taken into the bloodstream. The pancreas kicks into action, releasing insulin to convert as much of this into energy. Then the energy is distributed around your body.
However, because there is such a high influx of sugars swimming around the blood, not all can be converted.
Whatever is leftover is sent to the liver and converted and stored as fat.
Around this time, the adrenals interpret the sharp increase in sugars as the body undergoing huge stress. Adrenal hormones, including epinephrine and cortisol, are released. This, in turn, causes the heart rate to increase and makes you sweat.
30-45 minutes
Your blood pressure has now risen.
Increased dopamine levels in the brain have resulted in a sugar high, which gradually starts to decline.
Next comes the crash!!
Your insulin skyrockets, and hormone levels have caused blood sugar levels to crash. This causes tiredness, irritability, anxiety or even headaches.
In response, the hormones attempt to restore Blood sugars to normal, by squeezing what they can from the liver.
45-60 minutes
Hormonal chaos has disrupted the Phagocytic cell function - which means that your immune system won't be working at full capacity and your body is more prone to infection from bacteria and viruses. A lot less effective than it was before ingesting the sugar!!
The immune system will take at least 5 hours to be back to where it was before you ate sugar-
