A Sugar Substitute That’s Good For You? The Science Behind Allulose - with Dr. Bikman | EP 169

It inspires me that these guys who do not need YouTube money will take the time to share this level of invaluable information for nothing more than helping fellow humans. What a good thing this is!

Im a sugar addict. Keto never took away the cravings. Id have to fight them. Im now carnivore with NO cravings. Its so freeing when your mind isnt obsessing about food.

I have used allulose but stopped due to gastrointestinal issues. It’s too bad for me, but is what it is. I have removed all sugar, starches and grains and it has changed my life for the better. Who would have thought?

I don’t have a continuous glucose monitor, but I do the standard finger prick two hours after I have a meal and this is how I keep track of it and see what happens. You can’t measure it too soon after you eat— you’ve got to give the glucose time to get into the blood. Typically your blood sugar peaks about an hour and a half to two hours after you begin eating. It’s not just what you eat. It’s the way you eat. I have found that if I have eggs and bacon some avocado, in the morning with one or two Wassa crisp breads with butter, (these were recommended by Dr. Atkins years ago as a replacement for bread)—And then I will have one or two small homemade cranberry muffins with cream cheese —no naked carbs here. This keeps my blood sugar within a good range —I try to keep it between 70 and 130. Usually it’s less than 120 whenever I eat. Erythritol destroys my gut. I’ve purchased some monk fruit with Allulose. (Lakanto brand). I’m going to try it but only in moderation. I may try a half a teaspoon or so in my coffee although I do like black coffee —that’s not a problem for me. I may try it in some baked goods just to reduce the amount of standard table sugar, and reduce the carbohydrate content. I’ll have to see how that works. I also try to reduce the carb count by reducing the amount of flour and substituting with a quantity of almond flour. Godspeed to all of you out there who are trying to figure out what works best for you. Just one other thing ——the comment about some doctors not wanting people to have continuous glucose monitors because then people will just worry too much. This is what’s been happening in the medical establishment. Medical knowledge is no longer the monopoly of doctors and nurses, and a lot of them don’t like that. But what they should realize is that they have contributed to this. They are gradually going to put themselves out of a job because they stopped being independent critical thinkers doing what’s best for every individual patient and started practicing algorithmic medicine. And this is because in the 1980s, the pharmaceutical industry began taking over medical education. This is not just for people. This has been happening in veterinary colleges too. While there are exceptions, most doctors have become nothing more than drug reps for the pharmaceutical companies. —they have become nothing more than prescribers. The doctor is not supposed to dictate treatment. Their job is to educate you, present the options and you decide what treatment if any you will adopt. So the responsibility now is on everybody’s shoulders to inform yourselves and go to your doctor armed with information and questions. Don’t go there like a submissive child, —don’t be afraid to respectfully challenge them and hopefully you can encourage them to have a one on one adult discussion with you instead of treating you like a child who should just obey.

PBS's Nova needs to put this on their program. The entire world needs to hear this, understand it and IMPLEMENT all these critical measures to stop the food manufactures in their tracks. Please, get Paula Apsell's attention at NOVA and get this critical message out to EVERYONE. This is the 2nd time I have listened to this and light bulbs are going off in my brain with every concept. When I took my graduate level pathophysiology class for med school, we never heard any of these facts. I feel this alarm going off and too many people have horrific health that is so preventable. My whole practice was Primary Prevention but it was always dismissed as some pie-in-the-sky ideal that was unattainable...when it is NOT. THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN.

The allulose topic starts at 21m

I love that these fit, healthy men share that they too struggle with food cravings and also admit that once they cave to the bad food cravings they have a hard time stopping. So thank you for sharing these things. Those of us struggling with weight loss and constantly battling any weight gain often feel like fit people have it all figured out and can't relate, which is probably untrue for most of them as well.

Dr. Bikman is someone I trust wholeheartedly.

Where I've found allulose useful is in BBQ rubs. In standard rubs they use sugar to help the bark formation because it caramelizes. Allulose caramelizes like regular sugar so it works great as a substitute. Even though the amount of sugar you would get from your meat's dry rub is probably incidental I still prefer to keep my sugar intake minimal.

I am a diabetic, diagnosed in 2003, and the information provided in this video is the first explanation of the function and critical necessity of insulin production and control I've ever heard. This video has been an eye-opener! Thank you, Dr. Perlmutter and Dr. Bikman, for taking the time to produce this valuable presentation.

As consumers we need to start putting pressure on the industry to make CGMs easily available AND affordable!!!

You mention the inflammation in the body. I accidentally came across a video where Clint Ober was interviewed. He is the one who brought grounding into the forefront. He and others have done scientific studies of the effect of grounding on chronic inflammation in the body. He developed grounding mats that could be used by people that can't get outside to ground with the earth. I bought one on Amazon because I had several things in my body that I could not get my regular doctors to help me with. I had swelling of my ankles and feet on and off for several years. I was told by a cardiologist just to wear compression stockings. I wasn't satisfied with that bandaid. Also since July of this year, I was having pain in my soft tissues from the waist down. It hurt anywear to touch my lower body. I wondered if I had fibromyalgia. So after using the grounding mat consistently for a week, all the swelling in my ankles and feet went away. The pain that I was feeling from the waist down totally disappeared. Plus my hemorrhoids have shrunk down dramatically. Grounding works for many disease and degenerative diseases. Check it out!!

Allulose is also great in ice cream. It not only tastes great but it keeps home made ice cream from freezing too hard so it's easy to scoop.

Dr. Bikman (and his book) is among my most trusted sources for metabolic health. Excellent interview!

I was having severe medical problems and my husband was also have hormonal and sleep problems. I decided to get a CGM even though my fasting glucose was always fine. I was absolutely SHOCKED how much I was constantly spiking my blood sugar. I then decided to get a fasting insulin test and, no surprise, i was borderline insulin resistant. Because of being able to wear a CGM, I was able to see the wall before crashing into it and becoming diabetic and I was able to bring my blood sugar way down and drastically improve my health. Needless to say, I also insisted my husband get one and HE TOO was insulin resistant and was able to turn his health around (we both went super clean keto, heavy on meat and protein / fat) and are now healthier than ever. Thank you so much for this information. I just wanted to share this story to back up your information as I have personal experience with everything you are saying. Thank you!

When I started on Allulose, I really embraced it, thinking how good it was for me. Eating 40 and sometimes up to 75 grams in Keto desserts. I was wondering which ingredient was causing stomach pain, I finally narrowed it down when I read the following from a study: "In conclusion, a major aim of our study was to compare the digestive tolerance associated with D-allulose consumption throughout the day, in the aforementioned two manners. We identified the maximum single dose of D-allulose to be 0.4 g allulose/kg·BW for occasional ingestion and the maximum total daily intake for this sugar substitute to be 0.9 g allulose/kg·BW for regular ingestion. In other words, the maximum single dose of D-allulose for adults with a mean body weight of 60 kg was 24 g, and up to 54 g can be consumed daily without any side effects." You can read it yourself, just google all or part of the quoted text. I think I can use Allulose in combo with other sweeteners as long as I stay within the guidelines, I at 80kg won't go over 30 grams/day.

Very interesting conversation, thank you both. I started buying allulose to use in my low-carb ice cream. It helps keep it from hardening into a solid brick. I will definitely be switching over to using more allulose in my coffee and other sweets. I am also thrilled that you covered so much on insulin resistance. Which is a subject most of my healthcare team looks at me like a lunatic for insisting that too much insulin is the root of my problems, and adding more is NOT going to cure anything! And thanks to you gentlemen, I know adding allulose to my coffee should help me restore my insulin sensitivity. I will be sharing this, to help educate my doctors. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! BTW, I have dementia coming at me from both sides of the family, so I like that allulose can help my brain use ketones and function better. I've spent 40+ years with fibromyalgia. The last thing I want to have happen is to have my brain stop functioning, like my mom's seemed to do from something like Alzheimer's disease. Again thank you for this very useful interview!

Both Doctors do their homework and can backup what they say from my experience. I’m very grateful!!!

Glad they revealed their connection with RxSugar, an allulose brand, at the outset.

Thank you! I was the activities directory for nursing home dementia unit! Allulose would help so much to allow sweets by not sugar