Going sugar-free is great and I am certainly not knocking the overall strategy to reduce wasted/empty carbohydrates. Just understand that not ingesting somethin

Going sugar-free is great and I am certainly not knocking the overall strategy to reduce wasted/empty carbohydrates. Just understand that not ingesting something that has sugar in the nutritional facts doesn't mean your body doesn't produce glucose, the simplest sugar of all. If your body needs energy it will convert carbohydrate stores to glucose. Even if you go keto and ingest 0 carbohydrates, you can still convert substrates to glucose through a process called gluconeogenesis. I say all of this because I always worry about people who go SOMETHING-free, whether it's sugar-free, fat-free, carb-free, etc. Someone reads a person is sugar free but their body isn't exactly free of sugar. They just haven't ingested it and that's a big difference. And I say this because even if you don't go sugar free you can achieve roughly the same effects provided you keep the junk sugar (i.e. candy bars, soda) to a minimum. I do strength sports and I have 30g of sugar with my workout drink during every workout. My resting glucose is 90 (near ideal) and all of my blood markers are healthy. Outside of that I have virtually 0 added sugar but plenty of carbohydrates from fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. In other words, living life in moderation can produce amazing results and doesn't require a monastic devotion to be completely free of something. One last thing I will say is that the human body is so complex. The OP isn't just going sugar free. He is also exercising and making other lifestyle choices. That combined with the power of all of that positive reinforcement and changes only magnifies the other effects he is seeing. It's just too hard to solely attribute a sugar-free diet to all of these positive effects. It's really that his whole lifestyle has improved so he's seeing positive changes in lots of places...perhaps even changes where they have nothing to do with all of this but he attributes it as such (not sure x2 hair growth is really correlated to reduced sugar intake).