Thread: Sugar as supplement

Sugar is to refined, to instant. Beer is the magic you seek, IMHO.

Ahh Beer...the cause of...and solution to...all of life's problems!

Originally Posted by Vieope

What do you think?

I think you need to start reading in the diet/nutrition forum more.

Originally Posted by Prince

I think you need to start reading in the diet/nutrition forum more.

Ok but why is it not a good idea? Scientifically speaking, can anyone explain it? I think eating small amounts of sugar in predetermined intervals is the same as eating a lot of complex carbohydrates at once.

The Dangers of Sugar


Beer and Your Health

Originally Posted by Vieope

I am thinking about using sugar to get the calories I cant normally eat. Instead of eating more healthy things, I will eat sugar.

Sugar is a carbohydrate, it is a simple carbohydrate. The difference between sugar and the more healthy carbohydrates like pasta, brown rice or potatoes is that they are complex. Sugar is rapidly absorbed but complex carbohydrates take longer to digest so they dont get you fat so easy like sugar. I think the problem with sugar is that people eat a lot of it at once in the form of a cake or something else sweet so the body has no option but to store the sugar as fat.

But if I eat 600 calories of sugar throughout the day instead of all at once, isnt that like making sugar act like a complex carbohydrate? It would act exactly as if you ate 600 calories of healthy carbohydrates. Sugar is faster while healthy carbohydrates are slower.

Carbohydrates, simple or complex, they all become glucose/energy in the end.


What do you think?

Plain table sugar isn't dextrose, it's actually sucrose. Sucrose is disaccharide, a combination of 2 simpler sugars, namely Glucose (same thing as dextrose) and fructose. You're better off using dextrose, despite it being significantly less sweet than table sugar. Fructose does restore glycogen, but not as efficiently as dextrose and it also doesn't illicit the same insulin response to help transport protein. "Table Sugar" has fructose in it, not just dextrose. Goes via your liver and slows everything down. Better to stick wtih dextrose.


Go to your local organic food market and pick a bag of each: maltodextrin and dextrose. Dextrose is another word for glucose, the energy source your body utilizes. Table sugar is broken down into fructose and glucose before being utilized. Maltodextrin is a long chain polymer of dextrose with very weak bonds between the monomers. In your body, it gets broken into chains of about 4-5 glucose molecules. In the end, this mix regulates very efficiently the osmolarity needed in such a PWO drink.

P.S. Be careful and don't overdo it. You are messing with the highest GI sugar and another one thats very high as well. They cause massive insulin spikes when consumed. Extensive use will eventually cause pancreatic exhaustion and can lead to diabetes, one of the last things you, or anyone else needs.

I only take this post work out with my protein shake. I generally take about 1/4 cup or less but thats it. I also cycle the dextrose and only do protein shake PWO so my body can recover.

Hope this helps a bit.

diabetes is something you do not want to deal with the rest of your life.
use complex carbs/healthy fats for cals...your toes will thank you later in life!

Glycemic load is still higher when calories have been equated => more insulin.