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i want to see if you can guess the most

common craving

in the entire world okay so i’m going to

describe it let’s see if you can guess

it and of course the craving comes from

a combination of things of what it can

do to

the receptors in your taste buds and the

actual texture which is

very

creamy

it has a good amount of fat in it it has

very unique flavors and aromas

and it’s sweet

and it can give you a lot of pleasure

when you consume this both in the

combination of texture flavor and

sweetness but what it can do for you

okay what it does to the brain

is it decreases

a compound in your brain called

adenosine okay adenosine is a

something that helps you sleep and so if

you’re consuming this thing you’re

actually blocking this compound and it’s

making you more awake okay it also has

something called tyrosine which can also

increase this neurotransmitter dopamine

which can actually increase your

pleasure so this thing that most people

are addicted i’m sorry craving has

certain chemicals that affect the brain

cognitive function improvements okay so

you may feel that you have more clarity

with your thinking you may have more

concentration and more focus

and it also affects your mood so if you

have depression or anxiety can actually

pull you out of that

because it helps you with stress

it’s also very common to help

stabilize emotions with women that go

through their menstrual cycle hint

it also has effects on your insulin okay

it can actually make insulin more

sensitive so if you have insulin

resistance

it can

improve that thus stabilizing your blood

sugars

it has in one ounce

64 milligrams of magnesium okay

now magnesium

relaxes you magnesium gives you energy

and magnesium is involved in like 300

different enzymes so it does a lot it

can also affect your body in other ways

like in one study i found it can reduce

coughing it can help your cardiovascular

system in that it can help reduce

blood pressure so if you guessed this

you are correct chocolate is hands down

the most common craving that people have

i am definitely not opposed to consuming

chocolate as long as you don’t get the

regular chocolate with all the sugar you

need to get keto friendly

chocolate because

all that sugar is going to counter

the positive effects that chocolate can

have on your body and of course because

chocolate has certain stimulants you

wouldn’t want to necessarily consume it

in the later part of the day at night

especially if you have sleeping problems

and you have a little too much it can

keep you up at night but the theobromine

which is a different chemical can

apparently and help you sleep but just

for the fact that it has caffeine you

got to be careful about that now dark

chocolate okay why does it have all

these health claims well i really think

it has to do with it has number one the

least amount of sugar and it has the

most concentrated

phytonutrients okay now these

phytonutrients are fascinating and they

are part of the factors that give

chocolate its flavoring and i think

you’d be quite surprised

to find out where these flavors really

come from they come from the microbes

okay because chocolate is fermented so

that means that it gets help from the

microbes so apparently it seems that all

these wonderful

things that we would love to eat with

all these flavors

comes back to these microbes the

fermentation process you have bread

right you have cheese

butter which is fermented you have wine

beer and of course chocolate all of

those are fermented so these microbes

are just fascinating because they give

certain foods

interesting flavors so they interact

with different things different fibers

and foods and they turn those into

various

aromatic chemicals that give flavor now

some important information with

chocolate

make sure it’s keto friendly which means

get a chocolate that has an alternative

sweetener other than sugar don’t even

eat chocolate if it has honey in it okay

or coconut sugar

you want something like xylitol or monk

fruit or stevia

or

erythritol or even allulose and you

really want to make sure that it doesn’t

have any soluble corn fiber because this

is so badly processed and the studies

out on this are so scarce and most of

them are

from industry and so

we don’t know of the effects that this

has on our gut microbiome

also make sure it doesn’t have the

tapioca fiber which also

you know these new functional fibers

that are uh

being put in so many different keto

friendly so-called healthy foods which

the jury is still out on that and of

course no resistant maltodextrin it’s in

the same family as all this as well as

no

dextrin now since we’re on the topic of

cravings if you haven’t seen my video on

sugar you should check that out i put it

right here