Episode 2818 - In this wide-ranging and practically urgent Memorial Day weekend episode, Ted and Austin Broer connect sugar’s cortisol disruption, prenatal antidepressant autism risk, vaccine mandate legal victories, Ebola outbreak timing suspicion, and foundational prenatal nutrition into a broadcast that challenges listeners to make informed health decisions over the holiday weekend and beyond. The episode opens with Austin presenting the sugar and relaxation disruption study, walking through the mechanism by which sugar elevates both cortisol and insulin during rest periods, effectively canceling the physiological recovery benefits of relaxation activities. Both hosts connect this to the broader pattern of sugar’s systemic inflammatory consequences and recommend eating sugar only after a protein-containing meal to blunt the insulin spike, with Berberine highlighted as a practical tool for managing the blood sugar disruption that sugar consumption creates even in otherwise healthy individuals.