I'll give you my personal anecdotal experience. I'm 59 years old, a amateur athlete with a body fat percentage in the single digits but also with increasing glucose intolerance. This has put me on the threshold of becoming pre-diabetic. After much testing I have found that switching from honey in my morning cereal as a sweetener to using Allulose my blood glucose stays well within safe range throughout the day.
At the height of my sugar addiction, 7 tsp a couple of times a day would not have even put a dent in my sweet consumption. Giving up added sweeteners until fruit tastes sweet again is the best way to go for me - I dropped 175 pounds and reversed Diabetes 2 by going whole foods plant based.
Thank you Dr. Greger for the free very valuable information that is science based, and for giving the profits to charity from your books-- that's pretty special and rare these days!!
I truly appreciate your synopsis of this rare sugar. I discovered it just recently and was truly amazed. I have been morbidly obese for decades, mostly due to my severe sugar addiction. Interestingly, at 53, I've never developed diabetes or any other comorbidity, so motivation for quitting sugar has pointed to primarily aesthetic reasons. In addition, I detest any other sweetener, including monk fruit and erythritol. I don't consume much allulose, but I've found it a helpful tool in battling my addiction to sugar. I look forward to more studies and applications.
Allulose sounds fantastic, and I made a few pies for Thanksgiving using allulose as a substitute for some of the sugar. However I've hit a conceptual snag. I bought Simple Truth (house brand for King Sooper and Kroger) allulose, but it was a bit more than I wanted to pay. I found All-U-Lose brand in 5 pound bags for a better price. However I checked with the All-U-Lose company, and while the product is packaged in the USA, the enzymatic process that turns fructose into allulose is done in china (there's no indication on the packaging this is so). And Simple Truth brand says "Product of China" on the bag. Sorry, but I don't trust Chinese businesses for anything I put into my body. China lacks food safety regulations, and profit is king. While many Chinese business owners do the right thing, there are too many stories of weird substitutes to save money. How do I know some profit-minded business hasn't added a bit of lead acetate (or something else), because it's cheaper than allulose. The point is, in the past Chinese products have systematically poisoned people and pets, or polluted indoor air. I need to get back on my hunt for allulose that is manufactured somewhere in the world where food safety regulations exist and are enforced.
He's a public figure, and has to be cautious about making recommendations. Instead, his goal is to present to you a well-curated summary of the facts, and let you make your own conclusion. If you want a recommendation one way or another, here's mine: Sugar has many studies concluding its negative effects on health. Allulose and many of the other newer artificial sweeteners have some mild acute negative effects recorded, such as tummy troubles if you take too much. But, they have not been linked to long term health conditions, which is great (so far). So I would say the best course of action is to substitute up to 13 tsp per day of sugar for allulose, and not more than 6 tsp in any 2 hour window. If you need more sweetener, fill it with other relatively safe substitutes such as erythritol and stevia, or just fill it with sugar. Replacing even some of your sugar will have a positive impact.
Thank you for this information!! I just bought some on clarence and was just getting ready to add some to my famous chocolate chip cookies! I will stick with non rare coconut sugar!
I drove 35 minutes to drug emporium to buy Allulose today and I was happy to be able to finally find it. I have it in my tea right now. But once you said "Lowered cholesterol" I'm having second thoughts on whether I should continue to use it, or at least finish the bag that I bought today. I was actually working on raising my cholesterol the good and the "bad" and becoming healthier. So it appears that using this sweetener would be contraindicated. Edit: before someone calls me crazy for wanting my cholesterol to be higher, do some real research and learn what the mainstream is hiding from you. Also, people lowered their cholesterol eating Oreo cookies!! So lowering cholesterol doesn't seem like a good thing to me just by knowing that fact! Let alone what I heard firsthand from scientists explaining the LDL scam they pushed, and still pushing, on people.
I have some allulose. It was in my cabinet for months because when I first tried it I didn't think it tasted all that great. Now I've started using it again because if its alleged impact on blood sugar levels. But there remains a problem: as far as I can tell, it's not a sweetener. I can put 20 grams in my morning coffee and can't detect even a hint of sweetness. 20 grams is a couple of tableware teaspoons heaped high. So now I'm using it with green tea (which I hate the taste of) and my morning coffee, but I'm regarding it has a medicine or dietary supplement rather than as a sweetener. Maybe I just have a bad brand of it, but I doubt that's the case.
I have used Allulose powder and liquid from Wholesome Sweet and have found it extremely lacking in sweetness and flavor. I'm also a bit circumspect regarding the "super-safe" and "healthy" claims that have been continuously touted.
I heated an allulose syrup and it hardens like sucrose, and it is definitely sweet there, so maybe as a baking substitute to cut but not totally replace sucrose it could work since the heated product acts like table sugar since it is a sugar.
It's not a sweetener by itself, but it does boost the sweetness of sugar. So you put a little bit of sugar in your coffee, for example, and replace the rest with allulose. Same taste at the end, much lower sugar content.
@@Sharperthanu1 from what I just googled, it’s in such low quantities in these foods that food scientists chemically produce it from corn & fructose. … high fructose corn syrup is also chemically produced from corn & is awful for the liver & blood sugar levels. Now I’m questioning what allulose really is.
I am frustrated by people who hear an obscure possible side effect, like how Allulose was found to cause urinary tract infections in people who are diabetic and have low immunity and decide it is dangerous without pondering what they heard. These same people will continue adding a spoonful of sugar as if it is completely safe! I am having a difficult time influencing the person who mainly controls what I eat, and she is the pre-diabetic in the house!!!!
Thanks, doc. You are spot on. I’m going back to plain sugar and corn syrup. They don’t pretend to be healthy, taste better and they’re a lot cheaper which is important in today’s economy. Yummy!
He says "too early to recommend". I understand that to mean that There's still a chance some huge negative is found. And it is expensive. But compared to normal added sugar, it's hard to imagine allulose not being better.
Thank you for the information but just a friendly suggestion, perhaps you should go find a speech coach to make your voice less haughty and condescending sounding.
I just googled it. There are foods it occurs in naturally, but in such low amounts that they chemically derive it from corn & fructose (it does not occur naturally in corn). This makes it suspicious to me since it’s going through a chemical process.
How come this guy is always knocking stuff that is widely considered safe and nontoxic to humans . I use 3-4 teaspoons a day and my blood sugar is never affected.
Hello there! Canola oil is an industrially rebranded oil refined from low erucic acid rapeseeds; modified into supposedly, an edible oil. Can=Canada, ola= low acid oil. If the seeds are GMO, then the oil is more likely than not GMO. One might find a properly labeled Organic version refined from Non-GMO rapeseeds. Still, canola is a highly marketed refined, bleached, deodorized (RBD) oil, unless it’s proven to be otherwise. I hope that this helps.
@@powerinbeing4912 Canola oil is made from genetically modified rapeseeds through crossbreeding. It was created in the 1970s in Canada as a way to reduce the amount of erucic acid found in rapeseed plants, per Science Digest. In fact, "canola" is a portmanteau of "Canada" and "oil."
I rarely agree with Michael Greger. But I do believe that none of the artificial sweeteners are really good for human beings. But I think that both "seed oils" and sugar, especially added sugar, are problematic. I am a retired physician and a carbohydrate addict. A ketogenic diet has done wonders for my health. I do believe that for at least 800,000 years, man existed primarily on the ingestion of animal flesh and that animal flesh is likely the "species-specific" diet for human beings. But Greger's nutritional advice is infinitely better than the so called "Stanard American Diet".
Look up the primitive diet of the Kung Bush man _ roots ,tubers,seeds,melons with occasional meat like Springbuck. Remember when circumstances cast us out of the ' garden of Eden' jungle where we ate the foods of our common chimpanzee - like ancestor; where we lost the ability to produce vitamin c since it was so prevalent in our jungle diet.
While I am dreadfully against any artificial sweetener, I am not against allulose. There is a tremendous difference between rare and artificial. We have been somewhat programmed by evolution to accept allulose since some of the foods we eat contain this. Had it been poison when first enountered that would be a different story. So I am going to go ahead and start taking allulose as right now I have moved to dextrose since it has no fructose in it. Not quite as sweet as sugar so I need to add slightly more but I wish to make some allulose fudge and cinnamon rolls and keep my weight down while pigging out. Something tells me it will probably be about as sweet as dextrose so for me a good substitute.
Despite this wannabe dead pan commics assertions and slamming of allulose, I find it a useful additiion to my diabetic lifestyle. Is there anything this so called MD likes besides himself?
wtf? where did you hear that? even if it were true, which I don't believe it is because I can't find any legimate source backing up your claim (maybe a study done by the high fructose corn syrup industry?) I cannot even begin to imagine how much you'd have to consume to get negative health effects of any kind.
You left out the ONLY thing you need to know about allulose. It is not sweet. It may be a beneficial food supplement with a sweet aftertaste. But since half a cup in a smoothie or 2 tablespoons in my coffee do little to nothing to sweeten, it is either a pipe dream or intentionally manufactured in really low concentration to maximize profit. I’ve tried three different brands. It is really expensive. Claiming to be 70% as sweet as sugar, it is a crock.
Dr. Greger studies nutrition rather than practicing medicine. He usually uses strong scientific studies to back up his recommendations. He also has a team of researchers. He knows much more about nutrition than most nutritionists I know.
@Benson Makes you wonder if it's really a new user or just a coward protecting their main account. I guess any way you look at it, they're here, so their subconscious is helping them. It just may take a little longer for those seeds to grow.
Wow, could this guy be any more sarcastic and arrogant. A small amount of allulose will kill a thirty pound dog. So will chocolate. And just because something is not all natural, does not mean it does not work and conversely all natural does not automatically make something safe. Rattlesnake venom is all natural, antivenom is not. I don't know if allulose is safe or not, but this guy has preconceived notions and anecdotes, I myself am looking for facts. I'll move on now.
He’s quoting studies and that is his brand. He presents evidence based research to his listeners. Not sure what facts you are looking for as he is presenting the facts from the current published studies.
I'll give you my personal anecdotal experience. I'm 59 years old, a amateur athlete with a body fat percentage in the single digits but also with increasing glucose intolerance. This has put me on the threshold of becoming pre-diabetic. After much testing I have found that switching from honey in my morning cereal as a sweetener to using Allulose my blood glucose stays well within safe range throughout the day.
At the height of my sugar addiction, 7 tsp a couple of times a day would not have even put a dent in my sweet consumption. Giving up added sweeteners until fruit tastes sweet again is the best way to go for me - I dropped 175 pounds and reversed Diabetes 2 by going whole foods plant based.
Thank you Dr. Greger for the free very valuable information that is science based, and for giving the profits to charity from your books-- that's pretty special and rare these days!!
I truly appreciate your synopsis of this rare sugar. I discovered it just recently and was truly amazed. I have been morbidly obese for decades, mostly due to my severe sugar addiction. Interestingly, at 53, I've never developed diabetes or any other comorbidity, so motivation for quitting sugar has pointed to primarily aesthetic reasons. In addition, I detest any other sweetener, including monk fruit and erythritol. I don't consume much allulose, but I've found it a helpful tool in battling my addiction to sugar. I look forward to more studies and applications.
Monk fruit
Information without the spin. I wish I could get the news like this. Instantly subscribed.
No kidding ..right?
Allulose sounds fantastic, and I made a few pies for Thanksgiving using allulose as a substitute for some of the sugar. However I've hit a conceptual snag.
I bought Simple Truth (house brand for King Sooper and Kroger) allulose, but it was a bit more than I wanted to pay. I found All-U-Lose brand in 5 pound bags for a better price. However I checked with the All-U-Lose company, and while the product is packaged in the USA, the enzymatic process that turns fructose into allulose is done in china (there's no indication on the packaging this is so). And Simple Truth brand says "Product of China" on the bag.
Sorry, but I don't trust Chinese businesses for anything I put into my body. China lacks food safety regulations, and profit is king. While many Chinese business owners do the right thing, there are too many stories of weird substitutes to save money. How do I know some profit-minded business hasn't added a bit of lead acetate (or something else), because it's cheaper than allulose. The point is, in the past Chinese products have systematically poisoned people and pets, or polluted indoor air.
I need to get back on my hunt for allulose that is manufactured somewhere in the world where food safety regulations exist and are enforced.
Allulose beats fructose by a mile in the context of a healthy sweetener, and I've become accustomed to the sweetness level.
After suffering through that entire video the conclusion is “eh don’t know if it’s worth taking?”
He's a public figure, and has to be cautious about making recommendations. Instead, his goal is to present to you a well-curated summary of the facts, and let you make your own conclusion. If you want a recommendation one way or another, here's mine: Sugar has many studies concluding its negative effects on health. Allulose and many of the other newer artificial sweeteners have some mild acute negative effects recorded, such as tummy troubles if you take too much. But, they have not been linked to long term health conditions, which is great (so far).
So I would say the best course of action is to substitute up to 13 tsp per day of sugar for allulose, and not more than 6 tsp in any 2 hour window. If you need more sweetener, fill it with other relatively safe substitutes such as erythritol and stevia, or just fill it with sugar. Replacing even some of your sugar will have a positive impact.
@@xsh4n400 Nice summery of the situation. Quite helpful.
Hi I believe it is worth taking. If you’re fat/unfit then try a little everyday. See if it curbs your appetite. I know it curbs my appetite!!!
Allulose sounds promising for the keto junk food industry.,
Since I grow stevia and use it fresh, powdered, or in organic liquid form from Stevita brand, it's my main sweetener.
Yo grow your own stevia Wow, that's pretty cool
Thank you and thank your Grandmother! 🌹
Thank you for this information!! I just bought some on clarence and was just getting ready to add some to my famous chocolate chip cookies! I will stick with non rare coconut sugar!
I drove 35 minutes to drug emporium to buy Allulose today and I was happy to be able to finally find it. I have it in my tea right now. But once you said "Lowered cholesterol" I'm having second thoughts on whether I should continue to use it, or at least finish the bag that I bought today. I was actually working on raising my cholesterol the good and the "bad" and becoming healthier. So it appears that using this sweetener would be contraindicated.
Edit: before someone calls me crazy for wanting my cholesterol to be higher, do some real research and learn what the mainstream is hiding from you. Also, people lowered their cholesterol eating Oreo cookies!! So lowering cholesterol doesn't seem like a good thing to me just by knowing that fact! Let alone what I heard firsthand from scientists explaining the LDL scam they pushed, and still pushing, on people.
Thank you so much for this information truly appreciated
Still new to your channel so no major steps in a healthier diet but like you said. Knowledge is power 😄
I have some allulose. It was in my cabinet for months because when I first tried it I didn't think it tasted all that great. Now I've started using it again because if its alleged impact on blood sugar levels. But there remains a problem: as far as I can tell, it's not a sweetener. I can put 20 grams in my morning coffee and can't detect even a hint of sweetness. 20 grams is a couple of tableware teaspoons heaped high. So now I'm using it with green tea (which I hate the taste of) and my morning coffee, but I'm regarding it has a medicine or dietary supplement rather than as a sweetener. Maybe I just have a bad brand of it, but I doubt that's the case.
I have used Allulose powder and liquid from Wholesome Sweet and have found it extremely lacking in sweetness and flavor. I'm also a bit circumspect regarding the "super-safe" and "healthy" claims that have been continuously touted.
I don't find allulose to be sweet at all. I am glad to know someone has had this same experience. I think it also has a weird aftertaste.
I heated an allulose syrup and it hardens like sucrose, and it is definitely sweet there, so maybe as a baking substitute to cut but not totally replace sucrose it could work since the heated product acts like table sugar since it is a sugar.
As a word of caution, I am not sure if heat creates any by-products from allulose or if so what they are.
It's not a sweetener by itself, but it does boost the sweetness of sugar. So you put a little bit of sugar in your coffee, for example, and replace the rest with allulose. Same taste at the end, much lower sugar content.
I don't know what's so rare about allulose.Allulose is in raisins,figs ,honey and unsweetened grape juice.
Correction: Allulose is in maple syrup and not in honey.
Wonderful news
@@Sharperthanu1 from what I just googled, it’s in such low quantities in these foods that food scientists chemically produce it from corn & fructose. … high fructose corn syrup is also chemically produced from corn & is awful for the liver & blood sugar levels. Now I’m questioning what allulose really is.
I will never consume psicose (or is it psycose?) in the shower. Thank you very much for this important warning.😉
(And thanks for the laugh 😂)
Great, unbiased video.
I’m happy just having water to drink.
I prefer to sweeten tea or coffee with glycine.
I am frustrated by people who hear an obscure possible side effect, like how Allulose was found to cause urinary tract infections in people who are diabetic and have low immunity and decide it is dangerous without pondering what they heard. These same people will continue adding a spoonful of sugar as if it is completely safe! I am having a difficult time influencing the person who mainly controls what I eat, and she is the pre-diabetic in the house!!!!
😂Love the movie reference. All-u lose-is your mind…
I love these podcasts.
Thank you 🌠
Great video…keeps the attention. ☺️.
Thanks, doc. You are spot on. I’m going back to plain sugar and corn syrup. They don’t pretend to be healthy, taste better and they’re a lot cheaper which is important in today’s economy. Yummy!
Allulose raised my systolic and diastolic BP 10 points.
@@glenanson6963 take Neo40 / or drink celery juice/beet juice
And stop antiseptic mouthwash…BP likely fixed
11:10 what was the effect on insulin levels?
Diabetic vs non diabetic?
So please do you recommend it for human consumption or not? Thanks
He says "too early to recommend". I understand that to mean that There's still a chance some huge negative is found. And it is expensive. But compared to normal added sugar, it's hard to imagine allulose not being better.
Definitely prefer scientific data laden facts over a theatrically manipulated narrative intended to make the "speech" less boring.
@@IamKlaus007 cry more
Thank you for the information but just a friendly suggestion, perhaps you should go find a speech coach to make your voice less haughty and condescending sounding.
Okay but what ?
You appear to be the only person who has ever complained of this speech mannerism. You think the problem lies with you?
How is Allulose a natural product?
Is there an Allulose plant?
I just googled it. There are foods it occurs in naturally, but in such low amounts that they chemically derive it from corn & fructose (it does not occur naturally in corn). This makes it suspicious to me since it’s going through a chemical process.
How come this guy is always knocking stuff that is widely considered safe and nontoxic to humans .
I use 3-4 teaspoons a day and my blood sugar is never affected.
Rapeseed oil is non GM whilst Canola oil is GM so there is a greater difference than just the name of the seed!
Hello there!
Canola oil is an industrially rebranded oil refined from low erucic acid rapeseeds; modified into supposedly, an edible oil.
Can=Canada, ola= low acid oil.
If the seeds are GMO, then the oil is more likely than not GMO.
One might find a properly labeled Organic version refined from Non-GMO rapeseeds.
Still, canola is a highly marketed refined, bleached, deodorized (RBD) oil, unless it’s proven to be otherwise.
I hope that this helps.
@@powerinbeing4912 Canola oil is made from genetically modified rapeseeds through crossbreeding. It was created in the 1970s in Canada as a way to reduce the amount of erucic acid found in rapeseed plants, per Science Digest. In fact, "canola" is a portmanteau of "Canada" and "oil."
I'm psycho for psicose!
Like cuckoo for cocoa puffs?
I'm wondering about the advent of Keto and Carnivore diets? These are set to lower and eliminate carbs and sugars altogether.
👍🏾🙂👍🏾🙂👍🏾
Isn't it a reactive sugar? Maybe it will create advanced glycation end-products at a high rate.
Can you elaborate what this means in simpler terms?
@@iamsotiredofliving does it cause damage and make us age faster
No processing from China, period. What brand is 100% made in America?
I rarely agree with Michael Greger. But I do believe that none of the artificial sweeteners are really good for human beings. But I think that both "seed oils" and sugar, especially added sugar, are problematic. I am a retired physician and a carbohydrate addict. A ketogenic diet has done wonders for my health. I do believe that for at least 800,000 years, man existed primarily on the ingestion of animal flesh and that animal flesh is likely the "species-specific" diet for human beings. But Greger's nutritional advice is infinitely better than the so called "Stanard American Diet".
Thank you for this great info. on artificial sweeteners.
How does this jive with the new
evidence showing erythritol is dangerous? This could be equally dangerous
Thank
Look up the primitive diet of the Kung Bush man _ roots ,tubers,seeds,melons with occasional meat like Springbuck. Remember when circumstances cast us out of the ' garden of Eden' jungle where we ate the foods of our common chimpanzee - like ancestor; where we lost the ability to produce vitamin c since it was so prevalent in our jungle diet.
While I am dreadfully against any artificial sweetener, I am not against allulose. There is a tremendous difference between rare and artificial. We have been somewhat programmed by evolution to accept allulose since some of the foods we eat contain this. Had it been poison when first enountered that would be a different story. So I am going to go ahead and start taking allulose as right now I have moved to dextrose since it has no fructose in it. Not quite as sweet as sugar so I need to add slightly more but I wish to make some allulose fudge and cinnamon rolls and keep my weight down while pigging out. Something tells me it will probably be about as sweet as dextrose so for me a good substitute.
Despite this wannabe dead pan commics assertions and slamming of allulose, I find it a useful additiion to my diabetic lifestyle. Is there anything this so called MD likes besides himself?
Where does "monk fruit" fit in ???
In the mouth 🤓
@@movement2contact Don't quit your day job...!!! 🍄
@@carolwilliams7052 Too late 🍆
@@benson5967 who's Gregor?
@@benson5967 iT WASN'T.
I had this it was terrible. I just have no sugars added at all.
I read that alluose causes heart attacks. I understand that this video is a year old, perhaps you should update it.
wtf? where did you hear that? even if it were true, which I don't believe it is because I can't find any legimate source backing up your claim (maybe a study done by the high fructose corn syrup industry?) I cannot even begin to imagine how much you'd have to consume to get negative health effects of any kind.
You left out the ONLY thing you need to know about allulose. It is not sweet. It may be a beneficial food supplement with a sweet aftertaste. But since half a cup in a smoothie or 2 tablespoons in my coffee do little to nothing to sweeten, it is either a pipe dream or intentionally manufactured in really low concentration to maximize profit. I’ve tried three different brands. It is really expensive. Claiming to be 70% as sweet as sugar, it is a crock.
Not sweet enough. Very expensive.
I actually love it in my coffee!
it's only 70% as sweet as sugar so they sell mixed versions with monk fruit/rtc to make it the same sweetness as sugar.
why do you say " put it to the test" that way?
to be annoying
@@ladybugwest909 Yup. I''m sure that's Dr. Greger's motive. He produces videos to annoy people. Why are you here?
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Allulose is unaffordable ,,,unless for 1%
One of the most important things I've learned through experience: Don't take nutrition advice from an MD. nuff said
he's never actually practiced medicine, he just makes vids
Dr. Greger studies nutrition rather than practicing medicine. He usually uses strong scientific studies to back up his recommendations. He also has a team of researchers. He knows much more about nutrition than most nutritionists I know.
0:00-0:06 Sir Francis Bacon.
I delivered many meat lover's pizzas to this guy during the quarantine
Who? Sir Francis Bacon?
Boy you trollin
How much did he tip you?
@Benson Thank you for your support
@Benson Makes you wonder if it's really a new user or just a coward protecting their main account. I guess any way you look at it, they're here, so their subconscious is helping them. It just may take a little longer for those seeds to grow.
Wow, could this guy be any more sarcastic and arrogant. A small amount of allulose will kill a thirty pound dog. So will chocolate. And just because something is not all natural, does not mean it does not work and conversely all natural does not automatically make something safe. Rattlesnake venom is all natural, antivenom is not. I don't know if allulose is safe or not, but this guy has preconceived notions and anecdotes, I myself am looking for facts. I'll move on now.
It was xylitol that was proven harrmfull to dogs.
@@RobertaPeck The point still holds..Pre-conceived notion...
He’s quoting studies and that is his brand. He presents evidence based research to his listeners. Not sure what facts you are looking for as he is presenting the facts from the current published studies.
Do you know anything about who "this guy" is? His whole practice is presenting facts. Get some of his books and see if there are enough facts.