Once in a while, this discussion comes up on my Facebook feed. Well, its usually not a discussion but more of a circle jerk of a group of people I met at various Goa/Psytrance festivals and raves. This video kept popping up a while ago on my feed. I even wrote an answer to everything that this girl was talking about, can't find it though. So I decided to check everything myself. I will keep this post as a sticky and look into that subject and report back. But from what I found the last time, it is a bunch of pseudoscience. But I will give it a go. Btw, two of your links are not working...
Please let me know what you discover. Regardless, I took a vow with myself to not have sugar as an added ingredient for a year. We'll see what the results are.