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Sometimes you need to deal with cravings first so you can successfully do the keto diet. Find out how to get rid of cravings for alcohol or sugar.
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0085253815460260
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2015.00144/full
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0:00.0 | So today I'm going to show you a remedy that can very quickly get rid of the cravings to not just |
0:08.1 | alcohol, but sugar as well. So when someone craves alcohol, what is it that they're looking for? |
0:14.0 | Well, it has something to do with reducing stress, anxiety, pressure in the body, right? It gives |
0:21.3 | them the sense of relief. Same thing with sugar. Sugar makes people feel better, right? But it comes |
0:27.0 | with a little bit of a package, which I'm not going to get into in this video. But I'm going to |
0:30.7 | tell you one simple thing that you can take to very quickly get rid of the cravings, especially if |
0:38.3 | you're in the situation where you're basically addicted. And that substance is something called |
0:42.8 | el glutamine, okay? But it's very important to understand why el glutamine will work for this |
0:49.3 | problem. Now, glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in your entire body, okay? And glutamine |
0:58.3 | turns into glutamate, which is the most abundant neurotransmitter in your brain. And when we think |
1:05.6 | about neurotransmitters, you probably think about serotonin, dopamine, things like that. People |
1:10.5 | don't think of glutamate as a neurotransmitter, but it is. It's the most abundant neurotransmitter |
1:16.4 | in your brain. And without getting in too deep into the woods, glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter, |
1:22.1 | okay? Others are inhibitory. And there is a problem when you have too much glutamate, |
1:28.1 | it can create kind of a toxic effect, actually giving you anxiety, depression, insomnia, |
1:35.2 | things like that. But the way that it really works in the brain, there's a whole system going on. |
1:39.3 | And so the glutamate actually helps support an inhibitory neurotransmitter called GABA, |
1:45.6 | which is like the brakes. So when your body is in a healthy state, you have this nice balance |
1:50.8 | of the accelerator and the brakes. So you really don't have to worry about it. But the amino acid L |
1:55.9 | glutamine actually increases gluconeogenesis. That's the production of new sugar. So that amino acid |
2:03.9 | actually can very easily and quickly turn into glucose and feed your brain cells and make them |
2:12.1 | happy without the side effects of like sugar. Your insulin will not spike because it's coming |
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