How to Rid Your Addiction…I’m Sorry, I Meant Cravings

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today we’re going to talk about how to get a grip  on your addictions i’m sorry your cravings now this is a very important topic because if you  have cravings you’re going to have a hard time sticking with keto you’re not going to be  consistent so you have this little tiny gland in the brain called the hypothalamus and within that  hypothalamus you have a tiny little group of cells that control appetite and feeling satisfied  with foods and so there’s information coming from your eyes from your smell from your taste  from your stomach all these perceptions and they’re coming in through the body up to that  little center and giving it certain information and based on what’s happening it’ll send down  signals to the body to tell when you had enough food or when you should start eating and so let’s  say there’s some reason why you need food it will start creating the sensation of hunger which is  kind of like a an emptiness an uncomfortableness feeling very unsatisfied so we have various  hormones that are affecting this we have leptin which tells the brain to stop eating it’s like  a turn off switch now your fat cells make this hormone the stomach makes it your muscles make it  and so it decreases hunger then you have another hormone called ghrelin which does the opposite  it increases hunger it tells the body it’s time to eat and then so they work together and when  you eat you stimulate insulin and insulin triggers leptin eventually causing you to feel satisfied  but here’s the thing there are other sensors in your hypothalamic computer that  regulate glucose amino acids fatty acids salts vitamins and even minerals so based on how  many nutrients you’re consuming coming in the body that information will go into the brain and  then tell the body um to crave certain things to try to get these nutrients but this is where  it breaks down because sometimes when you crave certain nutrients your body’s not going to crave  like kale it might crave other things that don’t have that nutrient in it unfortunately now  you’ve probably heard of people who who have craved like dirt for example to get iron or  ice but mainly people are craving things like bread pasta cereal crackers candy sweets things  like that and maybe sometimes you’d be craving chocolate which has magnesium and one of the  reasons why you might crave these grain flour products is because you’re low in b vitamins but  here’s the problem when you consume these grains you usually consume them in the form of a  refined carbohydrate which basically has its empty nutrition there’s empty calories so when  you eat that food you not only trigger insulin and crad issues like insulin resistance but there’s  no turn off in the hypothalamus we don’t have the ability to turn that thing off so you’re never  going to be satisfied and you may already know this because it’s very difficult to consume just  a little bit of sweet or refined carbs and as a way for your brain to cause you to consume certain  foods it’s going to give you sometimes a pleasure sensation okay and that works through dopamine and  serotonin can increase the happiness sensation and these foods tend to raise your mood make you feel  better decrease stress and pressure for a minute until the blood sugars start going  down and this whole cycle starts over and over again so junk food including like  things with msg give you this artificial sensation and people literally live for sensation  unfortunately the sensation they get is an artificial sensation it’s not long-lasting  it doesn’t come from things that give you real good healthy sensations now it’s really  a trap because refined carbohydrates raise the insulin and cause insulin resistance and when  you get insulin resistance now you can’t absorb your nutrients anymore what is that going to do  it’s going to make you want that food but not really become satisfied so that actually keeps  the cravings there and keeps you hungry and then we have foods that are void of nutrition so we  never have a chance to satisfy that hypothalamus and then stop that hunger feedback loop if you  have low bile if your gallbladder is missing or you have a sluggish gallbladder or you have a  fatty liver and you can’t produce enough bile you’re going to have a difficulty absorbing the  fat soluble nutrients from the foods that you eat and the fat soluble nutrients usually are  very satisfying to your brain and especially the hypothalamus and this is why some people  when they start taking purified bile salts they start feeling more satisfied after they’re  eating it’s also why people when they start keto and intermittent fasting get rid of their insulin  resistance and they become very very satisfied in fact their hunger goes away their cravings go  away and they’re very very satisfied because they’re absorbing more nutrients if you’re  consuming too many carbs your body won’t let you tap into your own fat that means you’re running  on your your sugars your stored sugar constantly so it’s going to go up and down up and down up and  down another reason why you’re going to be very unsatisfied and you just won’t have the ability  to go for any period of time without needing some carbs and this relates to the next one which is  low blood sugar so anytime you have low blood sugars you’re going to want sugar okay so one very  important tip relating to cravings is not only do you need to cut down your carbs but you need to  raise the nutrients you need to eat nutrient-dense foods especially the foods that are high in the  fat soluble vitamins okay cod liver oil is a really good thing fatty salmon fatty fish and  leafy greens and vegetables high in potassium magnesium folate in vitamin c another important  thing would be your environment if you’re in an environment that you’re visually seeing  food all the time or you’re smelling food or it’s just around and you’re thinking  about all the time those can all trigger the pleasure neurotransmitter called dopamine and it’s  triggered by the anticipation of eating something not when you eat it so when you’re looking at a  donut for example you’re anticipating eating it you’re not getting any of those particles in  your eyes that are going into your stomach or when you’re smelling some pizza cooking oven  you’re getting some particles in your body but it’s not enough to satisfy you but it’s definitely  going to increase dopamine so it’s very important that you avoid these temptations by changing  your environment and not having pictures of food not seeing food not smelling certain junk  foods or temptations going to just be too high and once you start consuming fast food  it is so difficult to stop because of the msg which is going to trigger hunger it’s going to  definitely not make you satisfied and it’s going to increase insulin it can increase the insulin by  300 percent they use msg to fatten mice in their obesity studies by the way so it’s very important  to address all the issues that we talked about the difference between a craving an addiction is a  craving is a strong desire but an addiction is not only a strong desire but the inability to stop  or resist or control that temptation all right thanks for watching i have quite a few videos on  this topic i put them down below check them out hey before you go real quick i have  a course entitled how to bulletproof your immune system it’s a free course  i want you to take it and here’s why here’s you here is your environment everyone  is focused on this over here avoiding your environment but what about here what about  strengthening your immune system that’s what’s missing this course will show you how to  bulletproof yourself and so you can tolerate and resist your environment much better by  strengthening your own immune system i put a link down in the description right down  below check it out