When I saw my acupuncturist with my "something is not right with my bladder but I don't think it's quite a UTI necessarily?" and she did her thing and was like "yeah you need to talk to your doctor, don't mess around with these, something is for sure going on" and she got me a herbal thing to try (from a company I trust) and said to avoid citrus and then she said "and sugar."
I must have made a face or groaned or something because she paused and said "well, we're all only human but..." and I mean I KNOW.
Sugar makes the bladder a super awesome place for bacteria to hang out. And you don't WANT them to hang out. Ergo.... enough with the sugar Victoria!
But.... but... it's I mean... It's literally my fave?
But you guys, holy crap the ways that sugar is terrible for your health.
Not in the "it'll rot your teeth and make you fat" oversimplified ways we (or I at least was) were taught as kids but in "allows bad bacteria to flourish" and "causes inflammation" and kind of makes everything worse kind of ways.
So did I avoid sugar while I was going through the treatment? I'm sorry to say I absolutely did not. Sigh.
I know sugar's a problem for me. I was doing rather well with it early in the year but then got sick and I suppose in an attempt to give myself some hugs and love I got less strict and I know it's addictive and I know it's horrible and I know I should stop buying it but I struggle with that very much.
While I'm grateful I don't have a substance abuse type addiction, I know that the amount of sugar I consume is very unhealthy and that I, especially as I age and my body systems deteriorate, I really should reduce what I take in. I won't say eliminate as I think that's unreasonable for me and black and white things rarely work well in the long run but I do think a strong reduction might help me in a lot of ways I'm not aware of.
Le sigh.
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