What Do These 5 Food Cravings Mean About Your Body?
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
Dr. Jockers
4.8 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Jockers reveals what your food cravings say about your body. From salt to sugar cravings, these signals often point to nutritional deficiencies or imbalances. Understanding them can help you make healthier choices.
Salt cravings could signal a need for electrolytes and hydration, while sugar and chocolate cravings may indicate chromium or magnesium deficiencies. Hydration and stress also play a role in these urges.
Dr. Jockers also discusses cravings for dairy, red meat, and sour foods, linking them to protein, B vitamins, and gut health. Learn how to respond to these cravings for better health.
In This Episode:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Food Cravings
00:02:13 - Why We Have Food Cravings
00:03:34 - Salt Cravings
00:05:43 - Sweet Cravings
00:07:59 - Chocolate Cravings
00:12:35 - Dairy Cravings
00:13:43 - Red Meat Cravings
00:15:41 - Sour Food Cravings (Bonus)
00:16:52 - Summary and Final Advice
00:17:56 - Closing Remarks
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| 0:00.0 | One of the most common food cravings is salt cravings. |
| 0:04.1 | In fact, most people in society will experience a salt craving by cravings something like potato chips, pretzels, crackers, some sort of salted, crunchy food. |
| 0:15.3 | If you're craving a salted crunchy food, you're probably needing more trace minerals as well as electrolytes. Well, welcome |
| 0:23.8 | back to the podcast. I see so many people with different food cravings. And I've classified them |
| 0:29.8 | into five main food cravings. And they actually tell us some interesting things about your body, |
| 0:36.7 | what's happening with your health. |
| 0:38.7 | So if you have any of these five food cravings, you definitely want to make sure that you're |
| 0:43.0 | listening to this episode so you understand what's happening in your body. |
| 0:45.9 | We're going to talk about salt cravings, sugar cravings. |
| 0:48.3 | We're going to talk about cravings for red meat and more. |
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| 1:41.2 | And do you know if you're getting enough magnesium? Because four out of five Americans |
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