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Eric don’t do it you’ve worked so hard

don’t wreck it now come on dr. Berg do

it dr. Berg put it down what are you

doing come on you don’t know that this

is gonna cause a long slow painful death

take your chances

dr. Berg you know that’s gonna be bad

for your sleep and you know how much you

need your sleep

come on we’re all gonna die a something

that’s gonna interfere with your fat

burning’ for the next 72 hours do it

you’re gonna be craving it again in the

morning just a little bit this one time

don’t fall for the trap put it down just

know it

so I know this might be hard to believe

but some people are actually addicted to

carbohydrates I know it’s it’s pretty

strange isn’t it well I want to talk

about what happens in the brain when

someone has an addiction to carbs okay

there’s a little Center it’s a little

nucleus a tiny little cell body called

the nucleus accumbens and it’s deep in

the brain if you were to kind of just go

right in this way at this level it’s way

deep inside there right in the center

and this nucleus is part of the reward

system of the body it uses dopamine as

its main neurotransmitter also gaba and

serotonin and these neurotransmitters

are intimately involved with creating

this pleasure sensation so when this

nucleus is stimulated through certain

recreational drugs alcohol tobacco sex

exercise and sugar we’ll come back to

this one these are the triggers that

cause this little cell body to release

these neurotransmitters to give you the

sensation these do not give you the

sensation directly they do it indirectly

through this system right here so the

pleasure that you feel from any of these

is really your own body’s chemicals okay

now sugar is a really big trigger for

this nucleus right here on an MRI when

people take sugar this Center lights up

like a laser okay so it’s a it’s

involved in the release of dopamine in

pleasure and people get pleasure by

consuming refined carbohydrates because

the refined carbohydrates turn red and

sugar pretty quickly now the problem is

too much of this the stimulus downgrades

the receptor for dopamine and now you’re

not satisfied so you need a little bit

more you need a little bit more until

eventually you create an addiction all

right now the difference between an

addiction and a craving is in the

addiction the consequences don’t bother

you much anymore you’re just going to go

ahead and do it without the thought of

the consequences so some people have

high willpower and some people have low

power I’m going to talk about how to

increase your willpower

and part of it is improving this

physical structure in your brain

all right so number one you want to

avoid certain environments that expose

you to sugar okay so I’m talking about

restaurants mainly or even if you go to

Disney World into these other places

there’s like there’s so much sugar

around so you want to limit your

exposure to environmental sugar okay so

that’s number one and number two you

don’t want to keep any sugar in the

house if your spouse if your kids like

sugar you’re gonna have to all come to a

group agreement and if they’re gonna

keep it you know in the house they’re

gonna have to hide it very well because

you just don’t want to be exposed to it

you don’t want to have it in the

cupboard waiting for you and talking to

you and in calling out to you at late at

night okay number three get your

pleasure from being healthy and looking

healthy and with that you want to do

healthy keto and then a fasting I put a

link for those of you that are new but

many of you are already on that and you

are getting a lot of pleasure from being

healthy when you do healthy keto in a

minute fasting your mood elevates your

cognitive function improves okay so you

are gonna be generally happier compared

to when your blood Sugar’s are crashing

you want even sugar you’re like roller

coastering all the time with low blood

sugar problems and I already talked

about keto and I have being essential

but because this will reset the nucleus

accumbens because you’re taking away the

thing that’s creating the receptor

problem and so now the receptor will go

back to normal and then when your body

starts burning ketones your brain loves

it and these ketones will help heal the

damage in the brain because this is

located in the part of the brain called

the limbic system where the body can

regenerate that that brain tissue so

that’s that’s fortunate and lastly a

vitamin b1 has a potential to increase

your dopamine levels by taking b1 within

minutes you’ll just feel like a huge

stress relief and calmness part of that

is because the increase in dopamine

alright guys thanks for watching

dr. Berg you know how that gave you

rumblies in the tummy and that was

embarrassing

oh this is gonna work lunch meat lunch

loaf luncheon loaf no one’s gonna want

to crave that so we’ll just put this

away

hey guys real quick I have a new healthy

keto eating plan for you just go to dr.

Berg calm it’s right on the front page I

put a link down below download it it’s

free check it out