Sugar Isn’t Just Ruining Your Body It’s Hijacking Your Mind

You know sugar isn’t great for your waistline or energy levels.
But what if the biggest danger isn’t to your body — but to your mind?
In this eye-opening episode, mindfulness and mental wellness expert Dr. Soha reveals the shocking truth: sugar doesn’t just spike your blood — it destabilizes your brain.
From fueling anxiety and depression to worsening brain fog, mood swings, and even increasing the risk of long-term cognitive decline, sugar’s impact on mental health is deeper and darker than most realize. It triggers inflammation, crashes dopamine, disrupts gut health (the “second brain”), and creates a cycle of craving, guilt, and emotional burnout.
Dr. Soha breaks down:

• How sugar mimics the brain patterns of addiction — and why you keep going back
• The hidden link between high sugar intake and rising rates of anxiety & depression
• Why your afternoon “crash” isn’t fatigue — it’s a blood sugar rollercoaster
• How gut damage from sugar affects serotonin (90% of which is made in the gut!)
• Real steps to reset your brain, stabilize your mood, and break free — without shame

This isn’t about perfection.
It’s about awareness, healing, and reclaiming your mental clarity — one mindful bite at a time.
🎧 If you’ve ever felt anxious, drained, or emotionally shaky after eating something sweet, this episode will change the way you think about sugar — forever.
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hello and a very bond welcome to all of you
and relaxed podcasts, and I'm your friend and host talking coach.
So how are you, beautiful people, and how life is
treating you? And how is your day going? And everybody mine?
Well you got this, you got this, okay, so and uh,

(00:31):
just be relaxed and be focused on your life, your goals,
and you've got this today. The topic I have chosen
for you and what I am about to discuss with
you is how sugar is harming our body, but merely

(00:53):
how it is affecting our mental health. Sugar a favorite
of so many people, sugar and sweets, sugar and almost
everything process food. And guess what, even then, we can't
refrain ourselves not to consume sugar fully, so we got

(01:18):
to do that for our own goat. Whole foods like
fruits and veggies and dairy and grain have natural sugars,
so they don't really affect our body in a bad way.
Our body dies through carbs slowly, and our body cells

(01:39):
get to study supply of vanity through sugar, but add
additives the sugar which is added that is a different story.
And that sugar is added in different drinks and different
food items. And this is this additional sugar. It's not coot.

(02:05):
According to the American Heart Association recommendations, no more than
sixties bones for you, my dear ladies. And that is
a limit for you, meaning twenty five grams sugar per
day added once that advance and are like for men,
this is ninetiesponts thirty six grams per day, no more.

(02:31):
And what we do, we take a lot of sugar
every day, most of us do that. Sugar sweetened beverages
are our favorites. And then we like to add sugar
in everything. Almost many people they get their daily calories

(02:53):
from added sugar. Although knowing so that this extra sugar
raises your blood pressure, releases more fats into the blood stream,
people keep on having this sugar and guess what. This
can lead you to heart attack, stroke or other heart diseases.

(03:13):
Sugar drinks in particular can lead you to very steadily
towards diabetes and several other diseases. It can raise your
blood pressure or release more fats into the blood stream.

(03:33):
And even knowing so, you really control your sugar intake
or you go for it just like that. If you
don't control your sugar intake. It's very bad for you.
It's harmful because you can face high cholesterol. Sugar diets
are bad for your heart, as I've told you before.

(03:55):
And how much you weigh it matters. Raise your awareness
and raise your a good cholesterol instead of bad LDL
the lower the code. So stay aware and lead in

(04:16):
aware life. Do also know this thing that sugar can
affect your liver. It can harm your liver, which is
why oftentimes has said that snacks and foods and drinks
which are sweetened with even fruit sweetness, they should be

(04:39):
avoided to consuming more sugar, meaning turning your liver into fact.
And if regularly it pumps this added sugar into your body,
then guess what happens to your body? It will soon

(05:01):
change and it will feel the stress, swelling and scarring,
and it can damage your liver badly. What about your
teeth They can rot too with sugar, right, which is
why it says you know, brush twice a day and
even after every meal, and then avoid the hugret ranks

(05:24):
for God's saying. Dried fruit and candy and chocolates, no,
don't even take them as snacks all the time. Do
give yourself a treat you know in a week or
so in two weeks, but don't make it a habit
of every day. So it can very easily harm you

(05:46):
and your mental health. How it can harm your mental health,
you must be thinking. Let me explain. If you are
a person who is taking excessive sugar your daily meals
every day, than your mental health is very much impacted

(06:09):
by that, contributing to mood disorders and feeling of depression
and anxiety and being too moody, too nervy, and being
too irritating at times, your sleep patterns will change your

(06:31):
cognitive functions. They'll see a decline. High sugar intake is
linked to inflammation in the brain, which is a very
first factor when we discuss depression. It adds up to

(06:52):
having more depression, makes it more acute. It can also
lead you to energy crashes again and again, and mood swings,
and you'll feel that if your moods are changing like
a roller coaster, right up and down, up and down,

(07:13):
up and down. And in that situation, who would want
to be like tolerating you, staying near to you. Maybe
the job scenario of yours or life scenario of yours,
Your relationships, they'll suffer and so will you because you

(07:35):
don't want that your loved ones I should go away
from you, be driven away from you. But it will
happen because your mood swings will be too much for
them to handle. So let's now discuss in detail how
your mental health could be affected by taking more or

(08:00):
sugar or excessive sugar every day. Number one, As I've
told you, the risk of having depression and anxiety will
be increased tremendously, and studies they have already shown a
correlation between our sugar and take and an increase risk

(08:20):
of developing a high level of depression. Also and then
again you will see you know, those mood swings, the
worsening symptoms in you as where anxiety and depression is concerned.
The second thing is sleep disruptions. Fluctuations in blood sugar

(08:42):
levels cause these sleep disruptions and this can lead to
ensomia and difficulty to falling asleep, problematic life for you
and your partner, for your children, and what about the
productive day of yours during the day, it will get
affected too, So pay attention and don't consume much sugar

(09:12):
because your moods if they are affected too much. They
create a whole cycle of negative effects in your body
and this will effect your sleep too. Then third factor
is the cognitive impairment. High sugar intake can lead to

(09:35):
cognitive impairments. You will come across memory problems and will
have difficulty with focusing on things and concentrating on things.
And this brain reward system which is instilled in us

(09:56):
through which we feel motivated to do anything and feel
after doing that thing or you know, achieving that very
goal or task, it can be negatively affected by excessive
sugar consumption, So keep a check on your sugar consumption.

(10:16):
As a fourth factor, there could be an addiction developed
in you towards sugar. Sugar can trigger the release of
tubermin neurotransmitter associated with player end reward. So what it
will lead to them craving for more sugar. Your body

(10:41):
will feel unfit, but your heart will say no, I
want more sugar. You'll gain weight, but you'll say okay, no, no,
I want more sugar. Withdrawal symptoms can occur when sugar
intake is reduced or staffed, and which which is why
a person can feel just like an added feels. So

(11:05):
be very conscious about this very thing too. Now, how
the mental health suffers when inflammation be in the brain.
Information in the brain is known as a factor in
depression and other mental health conditions, a very severe thing

(11:29):
which can lead to different problems in life, different acute
medical problems. How sugar intake can contribute to systematic inflammation
of your brain, potentially damaging it partially in any way.

(11:51):
Then on a six point, how sugar can impact our
neuro transmitters. I've told you all that they've got neurotransmitters
including dopamine and serotonin, which are crucial for regulating our mood.
I will sleep in our congnaive functions, So too much

(12:18):
sugar intake could lead us to imbalance of these hormones
in our body and can contribute to mood disorders and
cognitive problems in long run and short run. So let's

(12:39):
try that you should limit your sugar intake because this
is the right thing to do. Not only you should
avoid too much salt, but sugar too. Sugar can provide
a temporary satisfaction or booze or excessive consumption of sugar

(13:04):
feels like a norm which is quite normal, but in
fact it isn't, and you can have different effects on
your body, on your health, on your mental health, on
your fitness regime, on your body weight, on your moods,
cognitive functions, sleep. If you don't look out for what

(13:31):
you eat and how much you consume food and in
which style and in what proportion, and how much sugar
intake is there, and how much salt intake is there.
So to avoid these serious conditions like depression and anxiety,
limit your sugar intake right now. Because Neurer transmitters, which

(13:57):
send a sense signal bit between nerve cells that is
necessary for learning and memory. They can also if fed
too much sugar, can cause agitation, depression, anxiety. Right, So

(14:20):
keep a check on you whenever you think that how
it can affect your mental health. Also try to know
how it is going to impact your physical health, mental health,
how it will affect your thinking, you're feeling, your behavior,

(14:41):
and physical health, then you will find yourself in unexpected
situations and you'll be overwhelmed with those feelings. All right,
because if you're too much a weight can or perhaps
other physical conditions. So instead of living in a scenario

(15:07):
where there is a fearful future, why not be cautious today?
Why not adopt precautionary mayers right away. And why not
limit our sugar and salt intake when we know that
it can affect us in so many bad ways. Could

(15:32):
cause depression, hard diseases and even stroke, and bad skin,
risk of diabetes, over away cancer, causes of skin sagging
and wrinkles, formation of cavities. So then why why should
we not care about all these things? And guess what

(15:53):
sugar can lead to joint pain as well? Oh yes,
excessive sugar, an excessive salt. An excessive sugar can lead
us to have a fatty liver drains our energy. So
live an away life and try not to be driven

(16:17):
by this urge of yours that you crave sugar and
then you take sugar, and then you take excessive sugar.
You have been listening to your relaxed podcast and I'm
your hostome friend that can coach, So bye for now,
your ones,