Dr. Porter shares the 4th of July brain benefits of limiting sugar.

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Here is the transcript of that segment from The Tara Show: Ryan Recker: And welcome back. I’m Ryan Recker, filling in for Tara, happy to be with you. If you want to message the show, the common sense retirement planning text line is 800-905-0989. Uh, producer JJ, do we have our guest on the line? I hope we do, making a quick call. Okay, we’re going to—I think one of the ideas of the 4th of July is that when you are enjoying it, you kind of understand most of the things you’re enjoying are probably not like the best for you and you don’t care. I don’t care. I mean, it’s 4th of July, if I want to eat a steak and a burger and a hot dog, I’m going to celebrate America the way I want to celebrate America. But not everything’s the best for you, you know, when it comes to your health, but you still want to be able to celebrate. So I thought this might be an interesting type of interview. We can talk to a brain expert, someone that is an award-winning author and speaker, and founder of BrainTap, leading technology when it comes to enhanced meditation, Dr. Patrick Porter. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Dr. Patrick Porter: Hey, thanks for having me. It’s great to be here. Ryan Recker: Yeah, we—we keep hearing things like, okay, there’s so much that’s bad for you and, you know, bad for the brain, bad for this. You know, and every morning I wake up, I drink coffee and I always wonder, okay, is this going to be the end of me? But I’m looking forward to the 4th of July, and there’s so many things that I think people will be partaking in, and I wanted to get your thoughts on the things that are good and bad for your brain that people will be doing on the 4th of July. And, you know, we can easily talk about the food side of it. Joey Chestnut’s going to eat like 60 hot dogs... Would you say that’s good or bad for your brain? Dr. Patrick Porter: I think, uh, it's bad for your body. I think, you know, I don’t know what he’s going to do with all that nitrates. But yeah, overeating is bad for the brain because you—you produce—you overproduce sugar. When you—when you eat, overeating is converted to sugar, so that’s a bad thing. But when we think about what to drink and not to drink on 4th of July, people are going to be doing things that they usually wouldn’t do. So the—the main thing is to do everything in moderation, because uh, if you’re not used to having let’s say two or three beers, which are not really good for anybody, but if that’s what’s going to happen, people are going to have their adult beverages. And what they don’t realize is that it goes directly to the brain. When we’ve done scans on the brain, the worst thing you can do for your brain is sugar. So when you think of all the sugary drinks that people are going to be drinking, all the—I mean, um, when Steve Jobs recruited the—the marketing person from Coca-Cola, he—he asked, "Are you going to make sugar water the rest of your life, or are you going to make a difference? You’re going to make a dent in the world." You know, so—but sugar drives uh a lot of behavior because, you know, you get the—then you get the sugar blues and hopefully by midnight you’re—you’re crashed and burned. So I think the one thing you can drink that’s good, there’s a lot of good things like herbal drinks, uh, herbal teas can be considered water to the body. Most people are already dehydrated, so they should be drinking at least half their body’s weight in ounces of water and putting full spectrum salt or what they call Celtic salt or mineralized salt, not table salt, but there’s—you can get it at the grocery store, put that in your water, especially in the morning. Uh, you know, that’s going to give you similar effects to a cup of coffee but, you know, the—the article that we’re talking about, they’re saying moderate coffee will do something, and we know caffeine will do it. It’ll, you know, so people will be drinking coffee in the morning, I’m sure, to get ready to go. And the who ...

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