| On Halloween night and many other sugar-coated | | | | another kind. As the balance of sugars in the blood |
| occasions, many of us will be experiencing lots of | | | | goes off-kilter, the pancreas begins to rush out insulin |
| candy going into little bags already full of little sugary | | | | which pushes sugars out of the bloodstream and into |
| treats. However, once the night is over and the | | | | tissues causing an ‘sugar low’ enough to |
| candy trading negotiations are almost over, the little | | | | cause a kid to start singing John Lee Hooker songs, |
| business people soon become a little wild. Many | | | | or even ‘The Candyland Blues’. This |
| believe this spike in energy involves a beloved rush, | | | | experience is caused by the lunging sugar levels also |
| or a ‘sugar high’ per se. But on the contrary, | | | | known as hypoglycemia. |
| as many scientists now believe, there really is not a | | | | Once hypoglycemia kicks in, this is when the next |
| sugar ‘high’ at all. If a person were to do a | | | | rise in energy occurs from the release of adrenal |
| little research on their own, they will find that a sugar | | | | hormones that begins to take stored sugars in the |
| ‘high’ may just be caused by the highs and | | | | liver out into the blood to restore the, now too low, |
| lows caused by the body’s regulatory activities | | | | blood sugars back to a normal level. This could be |
| as it desperately tries to achieve a balance of | | | | interpreted by some as a ‘sugar high’. With |
| glucose in the blood. | | | | all of this up and down activity taking place, |
| The human brain is fueled by the blood sugar, | | | | something else is affected. The highs and lows of |
| glucose. In fact, it takes around 20% of all the | | | | blood sugar and adrenal hormones can cause an |
| carbohydrates we put into our body to run it. | | | | imbalance in the body’s neurotransmitters. This |
| However, the brain is a little picky about how it likes | | | | imbalance will cause individuals to feel irritable, fidgety, |
| to take in all the sugars. It prefers to take in a | | | | inattentive, and sleepy and so on. So overall, it is |
| steady stream rather than spikes and constant | | | | obviously not the sugar itself that causes the ups |
| rushes. The major rushes of sugar into the blood is | | | | and downs associated with sugar intake; it is our own |
| caused by intake of simple carbohydrates often | | | | adrenal hormones and blood sugars being regulated. |
| found in candy, soda, corn syrup and processed flour | | | | There was once a myth a long, long time ago when |
| products. These foods will cause wild ‘ups and | | | | individuals thought sugar was within the same |
| downs’ as the sugar is instantly transported into | | | | company of other drugs which we commonly refer |
| the bloodstream. This rapid rise causes a rush of | | | | to as narcotics. |