Save this list so you can be prepared before your next sugar splurge!📌 You DON'T have to miss out on indulging now & then... But here's something you CAN do to avoid sugar-caused nutrient deficiency: Increase your intake of these 5 crucial nutrients! ✔️1 - Vitamin D Sugar actually increases expression of the enzyme responsible for breaking it down AND decreases expression of the one needed to make it. So sugar simultaneously impairs your ability to make vit D and renders it useless faster. This is a vicious cycle because low vitamin D makes sugar’s inflammatory effects even worse! ✔️2 - Calcium Sugar’s depletion of vitamin D affects calcium too because vit D is needed for calcium to be absorbed. So, sugar = less vitamin D = less calcium. It also increases calcium loss by blocking its ability to be reabsorbed. ✔️3 - B Vitamins B vitamins are involved in the process of converting sugar into energy. So when you eat sugar, you need more B vitamins than usual to process it. If you don’t have any readily available, your body will pull them from wherever it can. And since processed sugar only “takes” and never “gives,” depletion of these critical vitamins is inevitable. ✔️4 - Magnesium Like calcium, sugar makes you lose magnesium faster by blocking reabsorption and plowing through your reserves - which are lost in the process of metabolizing sugar. That puts you in a really bad spot because magnesium helps cells take in sugar. So when magnesium is low, your ability to regulate blood sugar is impaired. Setting the stage for higher levels of sugar & even lower magnesium reserves! ✔️5 - Vitamin C Both sugar & vitamin C use the same transporter - insulin - to enter cells. When they’re present at the same time, they compete for absorption. And guess who wins? Yep, sugar. Leaving vitamin C hanging out waiting to be absorbed. But being water-soluble, it can be excreted before it’s even had a chance to be used... Not ideal given all vit C does: ✨boosts immune function, ✨collagen formation, ✨tissue repair, +✨more. Link in Bio for my secret weapon for # 5! https://paleovalley.com/store/essential-c-complex?uid=77&oid=8&affid=628&sub1=igfeed