Replenishing the brains supply of glucose should be job number one for anybody with any brain disorder.
Anthony William, Brain Saver, p. 289
When someone is hooked on processed sugar, it's and indication of a glucose deficiency, sometimes going back to early insulin resistant in childhood. That feeling of a desperate hunt for processed sugar comes from looking for the fastest way to get glucose to the brain. It's not so much that someone is addicted to the sweet flavor; its that their brain is seeking out a direct line of sugar to correct a deficiency.
If that sugar could really reach the brain as intended, the person would become content and not sugar-crazed afterward. Sugar is not an addictive substance. The reason why it seems addictive is that excess fat in the bloodstream prevents much of the sugar from entering the brain, which leaves the person with excess sugar floating around the bloodstream and the fat from the food causing insulin resistance. Its a vicious cycle.
It's very uncommon to consume sugar without some form of fat alongside it. . . . We blame sugar highs and lows on the sugar. The real reason for the highs and lows is the fat...
We're always in need of glucose for the brain. That's why anyone craves sugar in the first place.
Even with insulin resistance occurring from fat in the bloodstream, some sugar is getting through, enough to give someone a quick moment, maybe even a hour or so, when they feel relief because that glucose is addressing a long-standing deficiency.
Trouble is, remedying a glucose deficiency with processed sugar is remedying it the wrong way. Processed sugar isn't supposed to be used in this way - and again, we're normally combining the processed sugar with fats, or there's fat in our blood stream from earlier in the day.