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Groundbreaking Science Between Your Mind & Gut Health w/ Dr. Amy Shah

THE ED MYLETT SHOW

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Cravings Are the Strongest Mechanism to Motivate Behavior

Cravings are so strong that you will take action much more so than hunger, right? Hunger, you could bypass that. Cravings is the same mechanism for food cravings as alcohol, gambling and porn. So basically how cravings work is that when you were a kid, you went to a baseball game with your dad or a family member,. And you had French fries, I had a Coke, you had maybe a KitKat, who knows a lot ice cream cone. It became a memory, a neural pathway. Your body wants to remember that - why would our bodies want to remember to eat junk food? Like that makes no sense evolutionarily. But it does because if we were

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