🚫 We’ve Been Told Sugar is the Enemy

That glucose makes us gain weight and should be replaced with fats, green juices, and fasting.

But here’s the reality rooted in feminine body wisdom—

Let’s break down this concept so you can make better decisions about your body and optimize your hormones!

🧠 The Brain’s Favorite Food is Sugar

Your brain is only 2% of your body’s weight, but it consumes up 25% of your energy—and it needs that energy in the form of glucose.
Not ketones. Not fatty acids. Glucose.

When your brain doesn’t get enough glucose (or can’t use it correctly), you feel:

🌀 Spaced out
😔 Anxious/depressed
😵 Forgetful/Short-term memory loss
🌫️ Detached or dissociated (BIG TIME)

I’ve been against long-term low-carb or fasting regimens since day 1 on this blog. These trends can actually worsen mental health, especially for women who are already juggling stress, work, and emotional labor.

💥 The problem is so bad that Alzheimer’s is now being called “Type 3 Diabetes” because of the brain’s inability to use glucose. (Something that could’ve otherwise been easily avoided).

🔥 Metabolism is Your Life Force—and Glucose Feeds It

Every cell in your body has mitochondria—the sacred powerhouse that makes ATP (energy).

When your mitochondria are healthy and your metabolism is thriving:

🔥 You feel warm (and not cold all the time)
🌊 Your digestion flows (due to good Prana or Qi in the body)
🌺 Your periods are regular (apex reproductive system)
🌙 You sleep deeply (balanced hormones)
💇‍♀️ Your hair grows, your skin glows, and you radiate

But what do your mitochondria need to function best?

👉 Glucose.

Fat oxidation can produce ATP, yes—but it’s slow, stress-triggered, and creates more byproducts like ROS (free radicals).

Glucose, when used efficiently, is clean-burning energy. It produces carbon dioxide and heat, two signs of a thriving, youthful metabolism.

🌸 Hormonal Harmony Demands Sugar

Very important for women:

🌼 Your thyroid hormones rely on glucose to activate enzymes in the mitochondria.
🌼 Ovaries need glucose to make progesterone and estrogen.
🌼 Your adrenal glands beg for sugar when you’re stressed—and if they don’t get it, they spike cortisol, which steals from your sex hormones 🙁 and makes you feel like 💩.

This is why:

⚠️ Many women on keto or intermittent fasting lose their period
⚠️ Low-carb diets can worsen PMS, anxiety, or infertility
⚠️ Chronic low glucose = high cortisol = low progesterone = burnt out feminine

🛑 The Problem Isn’t Sugar. It’s Metabolic Inflexibility.

It’s easy to blame glucose. But the real problem is that our bodies have forgotten how to use it properly.

Why?

😴 Years of stress and poor sleep
🏃‍♀️ Over-exercising
🐌 Low thyroid function
🥫 Inflammatory diets (PUFAs, additives, fake sugars, gluten in everything)
☕ Blood sugar crashes from caffeine or skipping meals (a cool trend)

When your body can’t burn glucose, it stores it as fat.
We think sugar is the enemy, but lack of metabolic efficiency is the root problem.

🌿 Restoring Glucose Metabolism—Without Weight Gain or Guilt

But hold up! Healing your metabolism doesn’t mean bingeing on candy bars. It means:

🍎 Eating real, whole-food sources of natural sugars: fruits, roots, raw honey, dates
⏳ Eating every 3–4 hours to keep your blood sugar stable
🥚 Pairing glucose with protein and mineral-rich foods (like eggs, goat cheese, bone broth—my favorite)
🚫 Ditching PUFAs (seed oils) that damage the mitochondria (and are highly carcinogenic)
🍲 Supporting the thyroid with warm, nourishing meals

It makes me mad 😤 when women with health conditions talk about trying to lose fat by “dieting,” aka, ditching simple carbs for kale smoothies.

✨ Final Words: Sugar as Sacred

Sugar in its naturally occurring form is not your enemy.
It's warm. It's movement. It's life. 🍯

What hurts me is the modern metabolic chaos that keeps us from using glucose well.

So instead of fearing sugar, let’s clear and nourish the pathways that allow us to burn it with ease and transform it into energy.

Love,
Zitni Zun :)