138: What drives our cravings? (part 1)
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
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🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Do you often crave a bowl of ice cream late at night? Does stress lead you to ply yourself with cereal and carbs? Julia Ross, author of "The Craving Cure," has a deep understanding of the brain/craving connection and today she shares her insights into why we crave certain foods, at particular times. Julia helps us identify what kind of "cravers" we are, and how we got that way in the first place.
Julia is an expert in the use of innovative nutritional therapies for the treatment of eating disorders, addictions, and mood problems. Today's conversation covers many pieces of the craving puzzle--from the "bliss point" of food, to the addictive nature of wheat, to how changes to our food system have impacted our relationship to food, leading to behaviors dictated by the neurotransmitters in our brains.
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| 0:00.0 | Frictose actually turns off our appetite radar by interfering with the expression of a number of different hormones. |
| 0:09.0 | So we know what we're up against and that's why there's been such a backlash against sodas because they were the first things identified as having a particularly unusually high fructose content. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast sponsored by the Westin A Price Foundation for |
| 0:36.0 | Wise Traditions and Food Farming and the Healing Arts. We are your source for |
| 0:40.7 | scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm your host Hoda-Labrata Gore. This is episode 138 and my guest is Julia Ross. |
| 0:54.0 | Julia is a pioneer in the use of innovative nutritional therapies for the treatment of eating disorders, |
| 1:00.0 | addictions and mood problems. |
| 1:02.0 | She is the author of the best-selling books. disorders, addictions, and mood problems. |
| 1:02.6 | She is the author of the best-selling books, |
| 1:05.0 | the mood cure, the diet cure, and most recently |
| 1:08.2 | the craving cure. |
| 1:09.6 | Julia oversees an entirely virtual clinic for food cvers and she is the director of NNTI, the |
| 1:16.2 | Neuro Nutrient Therapy Institute. Julia is an expert on the brain craving connection obviously and today she shares tools that help us |
| 1:24.6 | identify what kind of cravings we are and how we got that way she goes into some of the |
| 1:30.1 | science behind the foods that we eat why our brains tell us to go eat it, and how this leads |
| 1:34.9 | us to the refrigerator eating ice cream around 11 p.m. |
| 1:38.6 | This conversation offers fascinating insights that help us all understand our own relationship to food and |
| 1:44.4 | cravings and the behavior of friends and family and respective food as well. |
| 1:48.6 | Before we dive into the conversation we want to recognize our sponsors. |
| 1:52.0 | First and foremost, the Foundation, |
| 1:53.9 | the West Today Price Foundation |
| 1:55.3 | has its annual conference coming up. |
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