Why Do I Have Cravings?

To understand how cravings originate, we need to look at the  Triad of Health. This includes your brain, your gut and your hormones. All interconnected. In fact, your gut is sometimes referred as the second brain. So a craving problem is a really a gut-brain-hormone issue.

All of those years of ingesting bad food and external sources of toxins will hurt your gut. So if you can fix the mechanism that absorbs the nutrients, the gut, to help feed your brain to signal balance to your hormones, your body will function more optimally. Of course this is a very, very simplified explanation but nonetheless powerful.

Check this:

-There are foods consumed by humans that have chemicals that tell your gut and brain that you are not full. See how ghrelin and leptin stimulate and suppress appetite.

-There are chemicals consumed or contacted by humans that lead to hormonal excesses and deficiencies resulting in a host of adrenal, thyroid, and hypothalamus/pituitary problems. Check out the growing body of research on cigarettes and cancer and pesticides and herbicides and their effects on sperm count over the last half-century.

-To add to the list, are there negative emotions, thoughts, and feelings that if perpetually meditated on by humans will release harmful chemicals by, in and throughout the body?

Although there are nutritional solutions that can help, science is moving away from the stock recommendations on nutrients just because it is good for you; to taking something that is good for you but only if it is absorbed; to taking something that is good for you but only if it is absorbed and utilized appropriately; to learning what things are good for you individually and during the specific season of your life, that will absorb properly and be utilized in a way that won’t inhibit or cause other problems.

How have you addressed the triad of health to control and/or eliminate cravings?

Sources

Brain gut access and its role in control of food intake

Nutrigenomic Hypotheses

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