Maltodextrin spikes blood sugar

Maltodextrin is a food additive. It  is a sweetener. It is composed of glucose molecules. There is some research suggesting it is bad for gut health. From what I can tell it isn't any worse than other sugars other than it is absorbed very very easily so spikes blood sugar.  High sugar diets are bad for you in the long run, so diets high in maltodextrin will also be bad for you.

The video goes through the claims found in: www.functionalmedicineuniversity.com/public/2017.cfm 

A review article connecting sugar diets to inflammatory bowel disease: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apt.17720 

I didn't get to the advantages of maltodextrin: glucose consumption helps with glucose reserve (glycogen) repletion in muscles which is why maltodextrin is sometimes included in workout supplements. I mentioned fructose briefly as well, saying fructose needs to be converted to glucose... which is a gross oversimplification... fructose is easier to convert to fatty acids and fructose consumption tends to restore glycogen in the liver, but not muscles.