Food Theory: Sugar DOESN’T Make Kids Hyper?!

[@NoahOMorainRush]

When I was a kid, adults would constantly patronise me about sugar making kids hyper, and I'd tell them, "Actually I usually feel more tired after a bunch of sugar," and they'd tell me I was lying because I wanted more sugar. Turns out I'm diabetic. Thanks guys.

[@electroninja7419]

So they tell you you’re lying when you refuse sugar just to get more sugar? I think we beed a lot more context lol.

[@NoahOMorainRush]

@@electroninja7419 I didn't say I was dealing with intelligent adults.

[@PDragonBabyUO]

​@@NoahOMorainRush😂😂😂

[@yuuunarukami7006]

@@NoahOMorainRush fair, tho tbh those adults u mention sounds like they need special needs..

[@kamdendepedro498]

@@No_Direction-99RIGHT

[@hunter_hiebert]

Also important to note, a lot of parents who would report their kids becoming more hyper after a sugary cola, falsely associated it with the sugar instead of the caffeine in the pop. The video mentioned pop in its relation to sugar, but the caffeinated beverages also helped contribute to the sugary myth throughout the years.

[@wildstarfish3786]

did they seriously not associate soda with caffeine? /gen

[@maromania7]

​@@wildstarfish3786 Remember, this was the 70's. Root beer and Ginger Ale were some of the most prominent sodas, and citrus and fruit ones were getting a decent grip as well, none of which have caffeine. Sure, caffinated Cola was the top seller, mountain dew was swiftly rising, but quite a few of the largest selling sodas were completely caffeine free. Even now people think of the sugar in soda before they think of caffeine, because that's the only thing that's constant in all of them. Except water I guess..

[@Kyosumari]

@@maromania7 This is also more of an issue nowadays I feel, considering the rise in drugging our populace and the prevalence in caffeine in almost every beverage on the shelf and in our restaurants, with purposefully concentrated doses in 'nutritional' supplements now on the rise to an arguably chronic degree, and a heavy impact of elongated marketing of energy drinks to the youth and children that is/was also a problem in recent times etc. Remember MatPat's video on those dangerously caffeinated lemonades? Those were intense.

[@wildstarfish3786]

​@@maromania7 i tend to think of caffeine in soda before i think of sugar

[@Seal_pup]

God I love it when people call it pop or soda pop. /Gen. I don’t know why but it sounds so much more appealing and fun. Here in South Africa it’s called Cooldrink or Cold drink. Personally I call it soda but I wish I naturally called it Pop. ^_^

[@Sly-Moose]

It wasn't the sugar that made me hyper. It was the dopamine from having a fun time with friends that made me hyper. You don't see people calling drunk adults partying as hyper, yet that's exactly how they be acting.

[@HutchIsOnYT]

I just take an adderall and smoke a sativa if I wanna get hyper

[@Kyle_P]

Yeah, people have been confusing correlation and causation for a long time. It’s not that eating sugar makes kids hyper. Kids like to eat sugar, and also like to be hyper. Two separate things.

[@Mrnotpib]

Ah, so that’s what happened to my zoomies. D e p r e s s i o n . The gloomies, if you will.

[@maromania7]

Correct, though not a great example. Since being drunk is an actual thing, caused as a direct effect of the alcohol you drink. But a sugar rush is not real, nor brought on from the effects of the sugar you eat.

[@Temperans]

​@@maromania7They are talking about being "hyper" which is linked to being happy.

[@ellymyths]

I always wondered why after eating a bunch of sugar I only every felt the “crash” and never the “rush” It makes more sense now lol

[@_Short.Butch_]

but I feel 'rush' instead

[@MonarchOfSugars]

Can confirm from experience, the feingold diet did not cure my ADHD when I was a kid. It just isolated me from other kids in school and summer camp because when everyone else had popsicles or cupcakes I was stuck with pretzels and chex mix...

[@wolfiemuse]

It’s crazy; it’s almost like ADHD is a medical condition caused by chemical imbalances that can’t be fixed with something as simple as your diet… nah. Couldn’t be. 😂

[@LAWless_Nonsense]

@@wolfiemuse different brain, not chemical imbalance like depression Got both tho

[@division1444]

@@LAWless_NonsenseActually, one of the main symptoms in ADHD is caused by a dopamine imbalance. So yes, a bit of chemical imbalance lol.c

[@wolfiemuse]

@@LAWless_Nonsense ^^^ It creates imbalances in your brain chemistry in things like dopamine, serotonin, etc. If ADHD didn’t cause any chemical imbalances then it wouldn’t really be harmful because the symptoms are caused by it. you don’t physically have a different brain than anyone else, it’s just how it works that’s different.

[@mememan1546]

​@@division1444yeah, the only reason i found out I had adhd is because when I started drinking coffee, it fixed my dopamine deficiency. I was able to function normally. It is chemical.

[@nemesis8128]

Matpat need to do a episode on adhd and how it works differently then the normal brain with sugar and caffeine

[@leel9709]

My daughter eats a banana: infant tornado. She eats a cookie: sleeps. She's 1. Of course she is sometimes hyper.

[@GeneralNickles]

To be fair, bananas have a ton of sugar in them.

[@teehee5700]

@@GeneralNicklesyeah. Natural sugar not artificial

[@GeneralNickles]

@@teehee5700 what does that have to do with anything?

[@leel9709]

A banana has not nearly as much sugar as a cookie (depending on cookie). And natural vs artificial, as long as actual sugar molecules are there (fructose, glucose, etc), your body doesn't care once it's broken it into the parts it can use, primarily glucose. A banana has fructose, a cookie has sucrose or fructose depending on if packaged or home made, and your body will break the glucose of each to use it. Artificial sugars don't make kids any more hyper than natural sugars, because the body will only use as much glucose as it can and store the rest. Basically - sugar gives you energy, but it's not going to be the reason the kid bounces off the walls. They bounce off the walls because they're kids.

[@leel9709]

Also, fructose is a natural sugar. It's just been concentrated in that high fructose corn syrup because fructose tastes less sweet that sucrose. And now I really want MatPat to go over the difference between natural sugars (sucrose, fructose, lactose), sugar alcohols like sorbitol and artificial sweeteners, how your body breaks them down, and why this means diet drinks and such can actually be dangerous to a diabetic in some situations.

[@squidman3484]

This was always a thing that bothered me, as a child I always saw depictions of sugar rushes, but I had never experienced it, so it felt weird

[@RaptorRed]

I’ve often noticed I get sleepy when I go on a candy binge on Halloween. Now I know why. Thx matpat as always.

[@SaganTheKhajiit]

The idea of a sugar rush was completely unknown to me until I was almost in my 20's, when I saw it on foreign media. Here in my country it's just not a thing.

[@Misshowzat]

Yeah but I'd also wager they don't put the amount of sugar or additives in the food either.

[@lunasif]

In Elsweyr? I guess the sugar does different things there.

[@SaganTheKhajiit]

@@Misshowzat Oh, that's true. Forgot about that part.

[@SaganTheKhajiit]

@@lunasif We don't give *that* sugar to children.

[@c.v.emmans]

Yep. Placebo effect. I actually plan to weaponize this against my kids. I'm gonna tell them that veggies make kids hyper. Tastes icky but gives you energy. Veggie rush. They get an excuse to be maniacs, I get well-fed kids with a balanced, nutritious diet. Win-win.

[@teehee5700]

Genius

[@ebonyblack4563]

Bravo for Brilliance!

[@j.a.shawkins7640]

I applaud you. Well done for the well thought, carefully constructed light-hearted villainy.

[@wolfiemuse]

Don’t tell them it’s supposed to taste gross. Make some palatable veggies and tell them how good they are. That’s how you achieve ULTIMATE lifelong health

[@HutchIsOnYT]

@@wolfiemuseyeah. Dont be like Freaky Eaters and try introducing someone to vegetables with BRUSSEL SPROUTS

[@rengokus.number.1.hater_]

I would pay an ungodly amount of money to see Mat Pat’s search history

[@whenimmanicimgodly4228]

Youd be surprised how many fully grown adults i argue with every year about sugar rushes not being real.

[@sulaimanali1120]

I ate half a kilo of sweets and didn't get a high. I just had gained 500g of mass

[@proallnighter]

@@sulaimanali1120me but x1,000

[@Bitchy-girl]

Lol

[@hopegold883]

Do you have kids?

[@sreck6517]

i mean its understandable, its kinda one of those things you just accept and never do research on

[@mattwolf7698]

I would eat surgar as a kid and never felt or acted differently. I considered it a myth before I was even in high school along with that thing about your tounge having different taste zones. It was awkward when we did that experiment in elementary school and some of the students including me said "but I can taste the salt" it showed me that adults didnt know what they were talking about 100% of the time.

[@thedork9754]

As a not American, I always thought "sugar rush" was a just a joke, not something people actually believe in

[@JusticeGivenForm]

It's rush not rash (maybe that's what confused u)

[@thedork9754]

@@JusticeGivenForm oh sorry, that was a typo. I meant rush. In my country nobody doesn't believe in that thing, when I watched american shows as kid I thought it was just joke

[@manonhowell434]

Where are you from? I’m from south Europe and I also believed in sugar rush

[@thedork9754]

@@manonhowell434 i'm from Ukraine

[@jrk51]

@@manonhowell434 Don't know where he's from but I'm from Sweden and i also thought it was a joke.

[@sadhbhcorr942]

You'd be shocked how often I had this discussion my parents and they didn't believe me. As a kid, I was excited and hyperactive due to playing with my friends or else it was when I got tired from being out late, not because of how much sugar I'd had . Also, kids eat sugar because and are happy when they're eating something nice. Candy made me happy when I was young and I expressed it by being hyper.

[@baileybec4201]

I can't wait to see MatPat finally fulfill his child's dream to make an episode on what gum is the best...

[@myreilleleblanc8245]

I would like to know, what went through the brain of the person who invented Jawbreaker Gums...To plug children´s mouth so they wouldn´t be as "noisy and annoying"? They are ridiculously huge for kids and hard to chew. Meaning long time of occupation...Is my wild guess...

[@Skits_and_Giggles]

Short answer graep long answer second orange or a special flavor

[@petros8478]

If your a christian you need to repent of your sins PLZ

[@green7449]

@@petros8478We’re talking about gum here…

[@twisterzs]

​@@petros8478 what💀

[@ChronoShadow69]

"Everyone is just sleepy" is way too true. The world would be a MUCH better place if more people got good sleep.

[@Insertia_Nameia]

Seriously. People need naps. They aren't just for toddlers and babies. Adults need them too, no matter how much they like to argue (and they only argue about it because they think naps are "childish".)

[@hamingnu6610]

@@Insertia_Nameia I really hope more Western countries adopt the concept that a full 9-5 (sometimes 9-until whenever you're sleeping) "be active or you're dead to society" mentality is never ever going to be sustainable. As a person in an Asian country that practices siesta (former Spanish colony), it's always nice to have an accepted downtime that isn't just lunch. It's understood that for a certain hour or two, the people are sluggish, they just ate, and they want to take a nap. But they'll bounce right back before the evening begins to start doing what it is they need to do throughout the day with the energy they need.

[@Insertia_Nameia]

@@hamingnu6610 while it can vary from human to human, over all the human circadian rhythm has a slow down around noon, 1pm. Which makes sense the middle of the day is usually the hottest and when the sun is the brightest. Back during early evolution, likely before we were even human, you would've rested in your shelter/nest or the shade because it would be too hot to effectively hunt down your prey or go hooffing it around to sift through plants for berries and whatnot. So you would rest, conserve your energy, so when it cooled down towards the evening you have a new bump in your energy levels to go hunting/foraging or to do stuff around your home or for your group until the sun set and it became too dark to continue working. (In which case everyone would go to bed aside from those on lookout and those that would wake up to tend to the fire that provides heat and light.) Our biology explains it perfectly but humans love to have this notion that we aren't nature and that we are somehow removed from it, when we aren't.

[@eltiolavara9]

i'll never understand people that just don't nap

[@flaterik81]

So we had a fun experiance here in Norway where they sent like 20 kids to a birthday party telling the parents that they would all eat just healthy food. Parents left, kids got only candy, cake and all the suger they could dream of. Before the perants came back they had a story time and nap, so that they where well rested. All the parents thought that it was the best birthday party ever and that their kids had never been so calm after a party before,, all thanks to the healthy food. But in reality the kids eat only suger and just had a nap.

[@OldSchoolLPsGames]

Seems like when we try to make kids live on our (adult) schedules and we don't let them sleep when they get tired they turn into grumpy little jerks. But lo and behold, if you actually let tired children sleep they "behave". Now if only we could get through to the people actually raising the kids........ Disclaimer: that was a joke. I bet most parents figure that out pretty quickly - though I've definitely seen some that don't and pull a surprised pikachu when their kid is grumpy from being out at a party with them until midnight.

[@itsJewelia]

Thank you for finally doing this! As a childcare professional who works with little kids and their families everyday, it is amazing how many people fight me when I tell them that sugar rushes aren’t real.

[@thepeternetwork]

I was an indirect victim of this Feingold Diet that you mentioned. Born and raised around the late '70s & early '80s, my difficulty in socializing in school plus my advanced learning capabilities made it difficult for me to be a normal kid. Also, eating what I felt like didn't help any either.

[@PetesGuide]

Sheldon, that you?

[@petros8478]

IF your a christian you need to repent of your sins PLZ

[@This_account_is_abandoned.555]

​@@petros8478 Behemoth, Mammon,Leviathan,Satan,Baphomot,Asmodeus,Lucifer.

[@Misshowzat]

So you were put on the diet but didn't stick to it? Is that what you mean?

[@thepeternetwork]

@@Misshowzat It was suggested that I refrain from consuming artificial colors/flavors. Unfortunately, everything I wanted had artificial colors/flavors and I just couldn't avoid them.

[@karineraad3631]

October is nice for the Theorists: candies for Food Theory, horror movies and games for Film Theory and Game Theory, and costumes for Style Theory (I guess)

[@meta7517]

In addition to what you said in the video, cocoa actually contains quite a lot of caffeine and theobromine! A bar of dark chocolate contains more caffeine than a cup of strong coffee.

[@wifipigeon01]

Ok so I was really sceptical, looked it up and it's true. Didn't calcutlate the measurements of dark chocolate vs a cup of coffee, but I guess that's true as well.

[@meta7517]

@@wifipigeon01 yes, it seems to be a not very well known fact. I learned about it in a chocolate museum :D Was pretty surprised aswell

[@devinplaysstuff2618]

So you could call it a cocoa rush :)

[@axolirvin971]

It depends on how strong your coffee really is, and how big/heavy your chocolate bar is. The FDA lists 80mg of caffiene per 100g of dark chocolate. That's a decent amount, but not significantly more than you'll get from your standard stabucks. A venti (large) frappe from starbucks generally has 120-150mg, and I've seen venti drinks contain 200mg.

[@vacafuega]

Yes! I'm hyper-sensitive to caffeine for various reasons now and i've had to quit cocoa because it was keeping me up at night :O

[@PukuDuckie]

Yeah, I was always a pretty calm kid when I was growing up. Most likely because of my adhd (add/inattentive), but even coffee couldn't make me more "hyperactive", coffee always just... made me feel more functionable than without it, able to use my brain better. Actually the only time I ever did feel "hyperactive" was with some kind of exhaustion, like as stated in the video. If I was tired and woken up, crabbiness and the feelings of flared up anxiety, and even more often, due to my terrible low heat tolerance. In the heat I would very easily hit a heat exhaustion and it would make me react in a panicked sort of "hyperactivity", like a tantrum. It made me want to scream and roll around vigorously on the ground out of just.... feeling terrible and tired. Like wearing pants that are too tight or wearing clothes that are itchy and more than uncomfortable... Overstimulation, if you would. Feeling like your mind is going crazy or out of control.. So this all makes so much sense to me.

[@guinnessintheblood]

The title alone makes me very happy. I've been telling people this for years, and everyone calls me crazy

[@ryanclemons1]

No no we call you crazy because that one time you ate a baby at that party!

[@Vidiogamemaster1324]

Yup. Everyone says “wait until you have kids.”

[@adiahaalexander9359]

OMG SAME!

[@animeman8203]

You are crazy as Sugar Rushes do exist as I had one when I was a kid. I will forever stand up against anyone who says they don't exist when I know they do as it happened to me.

[@Art.and.Hamsters]

Here before the blue @‘s

[@ProfessorPrel]

Hold on. Is this a Theory video that gets straight to the point with no filler? Im amazed

[@ruyman90]

I can finally explain why having some snacks before sleeping makes me sleep better. Like having some strawberries or some milk with flavoring just before brushing my teeth and going to bed.

[@MellowChaos]

This brings back a vivid memory of me and a friend when i was about 8. we had just ate pixie sticks and were talking about how hyper we felt as the friends mom drove us to the bank (running errands). At that moment her mom (a nurse at the time) told me " sugar rush is just made up. if you focus on the feeling, then you wont be hyper anymore" And thats when I learned about the power OF MY MIND. Which is funny looking back because I wasnt diagnosed with ADHD at the time, which was probably the main reason I was so "hyper" anyways. Now as an adult I tell other peoples kids the same thing when I give them candy at my job (bc we all have the same childhood fr)

[@Wolfe_Blue]

MatPat finds a way to make you question everything you thought you knew

[@mirjinou7999]

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[@namantherockstar]

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[@gamerperson_epik]

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[@Art.and.Hamsters]

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[@A_fuzzy_ball]

Je he does

[@CursioNeptune]

I KNEW IT. once or twice as a kid, after imbibing on my Halloween candy, I waited around for this supposed sugar rush my parents warned me about, and no discernable difference to my energy levels or psychey could be felt. I have been dubious ever since (honestly I just thought I was uniquely immune, lol)

[@Jynxxy13ravedoll]

I find it really interesting how the effects of a "sugar rush" in kids is somehow a placebo for both parent and child. Now I need to explore how many other group placebo effects have been observed.

[@grn1]

There's a good bit of overlap with mass hysteria.

[@NayvieNoir]

Am 1st grade teacher, can confirm. During the last week of school we had a class party where all sorts of sugary goodies were brought in. But the kids just chilled and enjoyed a movie. It probably also helped that I didn’t warn them not to get hyper, unlike my colleagues.

[@Average_Grilledcheese_fan]

All the candy I've could've eaten through out my life only to be told I would get a sugar rush.....I will take my revenge

[@MamaWheelz]

Your gut microbiome is very grateful.

[@balintkeszthelyi1293]

Your not diabetic body is also greatful (raising your bloodsugar too high will result in getting diabetes).

[@Average_Grilledcheese_fan]

Peeps this is clearly a joke

[@Surfer669]

2:38 That child must've been extroverted because I was a over hyperactive kid but I felt embarrassed around large gathering (family and/or family), I usually stuck to the rules for Games so that they can be played properly (so I ended up enjoying games more alone than in groups). My hyperactivity came when opening a new gift that I really wanted or eating delicious food that I had to wait months for because it was "too expensive to have regularly". Yup I was as introverted as they come.

[@evalierippy2203]

I'm supposed to be reading my Bio textbook right now, but MatPat explains how the body uses sugar so much better, and it's the same topic we're learning about right now, sooooooo

[@wolfiemuse]

He’s not going as in depth as your textbook will, but there are plenty of KZbin channels with good science educators that do teach basically everything you could ever need to learn in school, all on KZbin. There’s straight up graduate level classes filmed and uploaded to YT

[@evalierippy2203]

@@wolfiemuse I know, it's just funny how he was covering the basics of what I'm learning today, and I could not focus on my textbook at this point

[@dashfire3185]

0:23 would anybody really think THAT looks likes a sugar rush face

[@PetesGuide]

When I was a way-too-annoying kid, my mom enrolled me in one of Dr. Feingold’s scientific research projects, so I got to drink large glasses of sugar water and then bounce around Linus Pauling’s laboratory in Palo Alto. Fun times! 🎉

[@slightlymaddog]

I always wondered why me and my sister never seemed to get "sugar rushes" when everyone else was clearly more hyper after consuming enough of the stuff. Turns out it was just their brains trying to replicate something they'd been told about more than us. Obviously we'd heard the term thrown about and had a general understanding of what it meant but our parents weren't constantly warning us about eating too much sugar of anything. That's probably because they're both diabetic so we get alot of sugar free things.

[@LunaWitcherArt]

Always a good day to learn how mosunderstood kids actually are

[@aussiewanderer6304]

My parents noticed that kids appeared to become hyper when they drank eight red or blue cordial, but other colours were OK. So I believe that food colouring causes more behavioural problems than the sugar. Notice that the girl in the video was eating blue cotton candy.

[@Art.and.Hamsters]

My mom used to say that sugar was spider eggs... needless to say I couldn’t eat sugar for awhile after that

[@manonhowell434]

Lord as a person who fears spiders that is low-key terrifying 😅

[@Sly-Moose]

That's so heartless, omg

[@eltiolavara9]

that's so mean

[@Ethan13371]

Sugar could be deep fried squirrel’s brain for all I care. It makes dessert taste good.

[@rinlikes]

In college I had one night to finish writing my thesis and I don't drink caffine so I took a spoon of glucose every two hours to stay awake and used the "sugar rush" to finish writing it. This makes so much sense now.

[@myspacer85]

I’m actually surprised there was no mention of Muffin in Bluey in the episode when she’s sleepy yet Way hyper but the girls want to stay up and play and at the end… well I don’t wanna spoil it. It’s my favorite episode but it all does make sense

[@staywackzach]

Kids are literally just "high" all the time in the sense we have of the word. Their neurotransmitters are naturally operating at the levels we try so hard to mimic as adults with drug use

[@maxsecret69]

Never had sugar rushes as a kid, glad to hear it's not a real thing

[@MiDnYTe25]

Thanks for bringing awareness to the silliness of this proposal. If anything, sugar has a negative effect on alertness once your system goes through it.

[@mldag1678]

Came here for biochemistry and the theorist team just never disappoints

[@siringc]

I've known this for years, but it's nice that you covered it since so many people actually believe in it.

[@jullespg]

How long could you survive if you couldn't eat the same food twice assuming you started when you were five?

[@namantherockstar]

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[@n64slayer]

​@@namantherockstarno

[@mirjinou7999]

Penguinz0inspires me... My parents said if i get 50k followers they'd buy me a professional camera for recording begging u guys❤

[@jullespg]

​@@n64slayerwhy not?

[@whenimmanicimgodly4228]

That sounds like it would get very disgusting around age 50

[@Atetrigrams]

I never got hyper after having sweets, I just wanted to lay down/always felt sick if I ever ate “too much”. I also wasn’t hyper after walking all night on Halloween. My siblings and I would just take our candy in our rooms and watch spooky shows, lol.

[@GingerMega]

Hey I have a food theory idea, maybe a research episode on why certain cultures bring food for when a loved one dies to the family, and a comparison to cultures, if any exist that don’t do that?

[@Invalid-user13k]

I remember hearing MatPat doing this. I wish he can come back

[@BuiHieuDong]

Sugary foods might not make you hyper, but it sure will at least lift your spirit up a little but after a long and tiring day of working.

[@blunderingfool]

It will also rot your teeth.

[@MamaWheelz]

​@@blunderingfooland damage your microbiome

[@kingzach74]

@@blunderingfool That's what a toothbrush is for.

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

@@kingzach74nope, it doesn’t just repair your teeth.

[@wolfiemuse]

@@TheOnlyPedroGameplaysYou’re right. It stops the damage from happening in the first place. And, high concentrations of fluoride and another chemical I can’t remember the name of ACTUALLY CAN reverse minor damage. I have to use that toothpaste because I ruined my teeth as an opiate addict - I’ve been to the dentist probably more times than you’ve been to the doctor. Not even joking - talk to your dentist about a toothpaste called Prevident. It’s rX only to my knowledge but it has legitimately improved my teeth health.

[@bexyPTX]

I remember other kids talking about getting hyper from sugar when I was little and I was like “yeah I don’t think that happens to me.” I feel so justified.

[@madnessarcade7447]

I always knew this cuz sugar never made me hyper I always thought I was just immune growing up 😂

[@supernova1231]

When I was younger, I always insisted to my mom that eating chocolate didn't keep me awake, it just made me tired. Later in life, whenever I have hot chocolate, instead of the caffeine waking me up, it just made me sleepy

[@CameronIGuess]

0:18 SHE GOING SICKO MODE

[@ImaginmationsCamera]

5:21 Bfdi mouth!

[@Silly_artist]

YES SOMEONE NOTICED

[@ImaginmationsCamera]

@@Silly_artist YEEESSSSS

[@c0met0np4ws]

SOMEONE NOTICED

[@10derchicken]

Yeessss

[@lime-animates-2763]

Battle for circle be better

[@proto_bluey]

5:26 has a bfdi face

[@twofy2626]

yay someone found it

[@red_light_3937]

You just gang busted why my candy consumption on Halloween made it so hard to stay up all night after the candy trade watching horror movies. AND why my ‘eat all the candy to help me stay up & see Santa Claus’ had me both tired & stressy. My single favorite episode of Food Theory to date!

[@Boringgrapes]

I get very hyperactive myself, but only when I am with friends, it was the same when I was a child (also when I was at places I really likes just not anymore.) and my mom always asked when a friend was over if I have eaten to much candy(and she ment it in the “too much energy” way.). And still every time I tell her now she still does not believe it. I am confident that most of us have the same parent/parents guys.

[@Anonymice]

7:39 This just confirms it makes kids "hyper" though. It affects their behavior by making them tired and drowsy. The growing exhaustion creates those assumed symptoms followed by the "crash" of wanting to sleep. They just get "hyper" for the opposite reason we thought. There's also the dopamine boost.

[@rjr7781]

This is what I was looking for but everyone else is just commenting like “I knew I was always right when I told other parents the sugar rush was not real”. I feel like this video is actually confirming that consuming sugar has an observable effect on a kid’s behavior because of dopamine increasing, then cortisol spiking.

[@Master0fHyrule]

I was hyper when I was a kid but I didn't eat sugar

[@simplytuvo]

I love your vids man

[@claratalbot7613]

I never got hyper off of sugar as a kid and always wondered why I never got the classic "sugar rush" that I saw in classmates & friends. Now I know it was that my adhd was keeping me from getting sleepy as quickly off the sugar as my peers. So thanks, Matpat & Team Theriosts

[@madnessarcade7447]

0:06 maybe she’s not hyper maybe that was just her first time trying cotton candy

[@zekemeza1628]

I already knew that sugar only made you tired and that sugar rushes are just people going crazy on purpose

[@j.jbrothers2812]

I always wondered why I got sleepy when I always eat candy. Thanks MatPat.

[@EmmyGacha149]

My personal theory for a while was kids dont grt hyper from eating sugar, they get hyper at the CHANCE to have sugar, and also that grown ups have a confirmation bias

[@jellyslime56]

As a slime with actual adhd I can verify i don’t get it by eating sugar. But sugar does impact it in some ways.

[@ashsmashtrash]

As a type one diabetic, I'm really thankful for this information being on such a big platform

[@archae1a]

I knew this already! Sugar actually makes you more tired, not more energetic, it’s really just the placebo effect kids have about sugar that make them so hyperactive!

[@Insertia_Nameia]

No it's a placebo effect on the parents. The kids aren't anymore hyper than normal. The thing is, kids are just hyper. Period. And thats not a bad thing. And they get even more hyper when they're tired. Parents just think the kids are more hyper when they are actually acting normal.

[@eddieryan6849]

I have a question. I've heard that there are three things you can do to make a box cake mix better. You use an equal amount of milk instead of water, an equal amount of melted butter instead of oil, and add an extra egg. Is this true, and if so, do you have to make all the substitions, or is only one of them actually making a difference?

[@Zapper-iq7il]

You know it’s a good day when food theory posts. Especially after school🤤

[@mirjinou7999]

Penguinz0inspires me... My parents said if i get 50k followers they'd buy me a professional camera for recording begging u guys❤

[@Art.and.Hamsters]

Your great uncle inspired me... my parents said if i get 50k followers they’d buy me a professional camera begging you guys ❤

[@XalasiaBall]

I knew sugar rushes weren’t real. Whenever I eat sugary foods I never get hyper, I just perk up a bit and then get a bit tired afterwards.

[@iboufan_123]

7:11 I yawned back at this

[@TIS_Plays]

i think this is the first time i’ve seen mat ever upload a non short video under 10 minutes long since the old old game theory days

[@10cutemoose]

Thank you for this, I can show my parents that it’s ok to eat candy whenever I want!

[@Possibly_Olivia]

Well it may not cause sugar rush but if you eat it all the time you could get cavities and diabetes. Now if you eat it in moderation then by all means have some fun.

[@gitchygitch8248]

I cant express just how much releif i felt understanding the science behind this. As a kid, i never understood why everone got so hyper after sugar. It did, and always has, made me tired. My family thought i was strange but i just couldnt see why id ever be hyper over sugar- and thusly i never really reacted that way. Science!! These videos make me feel like im not alone on my odd stances about food. Thanks MatPat :)

[@T-Dawg75]

9 minutes of pure knowledge, chemistry, and brain Psychology. I love this channel.

[@pdmat]

Man, this explains a lot. I stopped drinking sodas for a while because they always made me fall asleep way too easily after a long day at Uni. Now I understand why.

[@npcmaster3304]

FINALLY a vid on this. idk why so many people think sugar makes u hyper

[@RickySanchez2146]

i guess since it makes you crash people assume there was an energy boost

[@Rudolph386]

I distinctly remember in middle school, I didn’t really think I experienced sugar rushes but I had a huge lollipop and acted out a sugar rush because that’s what I thought people would expect of me after eating it.

[@AroGrooves]

You know you will have a good time when you eat food to food theory

[@MikaelaKMajorHistory]

My dad told me this all the time and even kid me had a hard time believing sugar rushes weren’t real, so I tested myself with several types of candy and plain sugar to test if I became hyper 😅

[@EnigmaticLucas]

There are grown adults who unironically believe in sugar rushes? I thought it was just a lie that parents tell their kids whenever they ask why they can’t have ice cream for dinner. I didn’t know that some parents actually believe it themselves.

[@susantherestorer]

I think it's more the fact that eating something like ice cream before a meal may fill a kid up too fast and then they won't want to eat the actual meal. Just a theory.

[@EnigmaticLucas]

@@susantherestorerPretty sure that the real reason is just that eating nothing but sugar is incredibly unhealthy; “it’ll make you hyper” is just easier to explain to kids

[@jeremyquentin42]

Fun fact: as a French, I had never heard of such a thing as sugar rush until I moved to the US at 26yo. It's just not a thing. And yes, we have sodas too...

[@notanonymousperson]

0:42 notice how he intentionally said upon us instead of among us

[@Melodie_Simp]

No, he didn't, "Octobers among us" makes no sense.

[@firegirl4707]

my parents belived in sugar rushes, but never worried about me getting hyper and crashing. we were a household that loved sweet treats, so i grew up with a lot of them. sugar never really affected me, i would just be very happy cause i was eating oreos.

[@perikyu5823]

As someone with ADHD, I can say pretry confidently it wasn't the sugar making me hyper

[@kattycatlooksee7543]

there are actually 3 reasons for the so-called "sugar rush" and hyperactivity in kids after eating sugar, the first two reasons for it have been shown in this video but the third one is much more simple and most commonly found in households where there is a limited sugar intake (aka no available candy unless in very special accations, having parents not allowing kids to responsibly spend their allowance on candy every once in a while or completely banning everything sugar altogether) and it's simply excitement, the exciting experience of eating sugary goodness, the excitement of seeing candy and being allowed to eat it and the excitement of seeing a food you really love after so much time of not being allowed to even look at it. it simply is pure, childish, excitement.

[@gemhunter498]

Can we just appreciate that this episode is 9 minutes? Matt totally could’ve padded it out to 10 minutes for extra ad rev, but he didn’t.

[@eltiolavara9]

No.

[@ridercraft3660]

Well KZbin changed it to just 8 minutes

[@andrewsiu95]

Hearing the end card music got me wondering if MatPat has considered including the channel theme songs at the end rather than the beginnings… cause I definitely miss them 😭

[@A_fuzzy_ball]

Now again a good food theory

[@omniummysterio]

i like how matpat shows us studies that 100% back this up and still called it a theory

[@vacafuega]

As an adult with ADHD, i do wanna add that since i quit all sugars (tough but can be done), i now have more focus and motivation than i ever have in my entire life. Highly recommend!

[@Insertia_Nameia]

You mean added sugars? Your body needs sugar. You'd be dead without it. Even keto requires a certain amount of carbs everyday.

[@Nu_Merick]

Congrats! I been on keto 5 years going. Love the cognitive benefits and high energy. Cravings go away too.

[@creepycutiecrafty]

Fascinating. I’ve never quite understood the “sugar rush” thing. I’ve had friends say my child was having a rush, but as they were in a party full of other kids getting manic, I wasn’t sure how they could tell! I’d love to see the Theorists taking the comments about the addictiveness of sugar further. Exactly how do people get addicted and what long term issues can it cause!

[@SkyKin]

Sugar doesn't get you Hyper 👀 Then were just naturally crazy (Kekw) I head that it's not the actual sugar that gets you in a crazed state its all the _excitement_ & chaotic energy that gets you into that state. Who doesn't like to enjoy themselves while hanging with their buds? This must've been an interesting dive to research, Danke for sharing. Hope everyone is doing well, Keep Being Awesome Bro 🍭 😎 👊

[@dantestrider3578]

Hella interesting as always. Matpat, taking the sledgehammer of truth&science to the walls of olden beliefs

[@ForcedMemes]

Oh really, if sugar doesn't make people get hyper then why does my uncle get crazy after he sniffs his??

[@yunggk7776]

👀 different type of sugar my guy

[@manonhowell434]

@@yunggk7776oh lord 💀

[@TrashTrackers]

So hyper, no. But fidgety and often more misbehaved, yes