What Quitting Sugar Feels Like

I'm Subject 47. Former lab rat. Scientists spent my whole career getting me hooked on things, then watched me try to stop. Last time I told you rats pick sugar over cocaine. This is the study, and what quitting sugar actually feels like, day by day, all the way to one year. It covers why your brain chases sweet things, where the seventeen teaspoons a day are hiding, the Princeton rats who got hooked on a starve-and-feast schedule, the headache that's half caffeine, the taste-bud reset, the liver study that halved liver fat in ten days, and why "zero sugar forever" is often what sets up the binge. 0:00 3:14 PM at the vending machine (cold open) 0:38 Subject 47 0:59 The study: sugar vs cocaine 1:35 The catch 2:13 Your brain on sugar 4:13 Lab notes: the Princeton sugar rats 5:41 Meet you 6:17 Day 1 7:56 Day 2 8:39 Day 3: the worst of it 9:40 4 sugar myths 11:42 Day 5 11:56 Day 10: the liver study 12:48 Week 2: your taste buds 13:21 Week 3: the birthday cake 14:04 Month 1 14:36 Month 2: starve and feast 16:32 Month 3 17:19 Year 1 17:55 What quitting sugar actually feels like 18:26 Reality check 19:04 Advice from a former lab rat #sugar #addictionrecovery #animation