Dr. Mark Hyman

Well, first of all, if you stay healthy, if you're metabolically tuned up, if you're metabolic engine and your muscles and your mitochondria and your weight and you don't have a lot of organ and belly fat and you wanna have a little sugar and you exercise regularly,

Okay, it's not going to kill you, right?

But if you are not metabolically tuned up, which by the way is 93.2% of Americans are not in good metabolic health, which is frightening to me.

And how you tell, check your insulin.

If your insulin is less than five, you're probably okay.

If it's less than two, you're good.

But if your insulin is high, you know, you're kind of in trouble and you're not going to have a lot of tolerance.

And what I call metabolic degrees of freedom.

We get more metabolic degrees of freedom by being healthier.

We have more resilience, metabolic resilience.

But most of us are metabolically just a train wreck.

Be careful.

But let's say you want to have a little something.

I mean, I'm not against having a little maple syrup, a little honey, a little, you know, actual sugar sometimes.

But but I would not I would not use this kind of hacks like agave or corn syrup or brown rice syrup.

They're just they're just not healthy for you.

And they're going to be mostly fructose and not a good thing.

Dates sugar can be OK.

They might have antioxidants.

Molasses actually has iron and things that could be OK a little bit.