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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  

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