Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Now, I know this might be hard to believe, but certain people, once they start carbs, they

cannot stop. So recently, I had a person who reached out and wanted some help because they

were slightly addicted to carbs. They wanted to start keto, but they have this addiction.

How do they go about it? So I decided to create a video for this person.

All right, we've been trained since birth to consume sugar. It's in baby food. It's in all of our

foods and go trick-or-treating, and you get all this candy, and every holiday, and cookies,

et cetera, et cetera. And what happens inside our body, every time we do this, is we start to develop

an addiction. And that involves two neurotransmitters. One is dopamine, which is involved with

pleasure sensation. And then we have serotonin, which is involved with the happiness sensation.

Now, I used to have an addiction. I mean, a periodic craving for Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

I got caught up in this eating a pint every night before I went to bed,

type situation. Over, I would say, a year. I would be obsessed about it. I would be thinking

about it all day long. And eventually, if I didn't consume it, I had this pressure or stress

build up that may be physically uncomfortable. But as soon as I started consuming this delicious

ice cream, I felt satisfied, happy. I felt like I was surviving. I could finally breathe again

for about about a minute. Now, of course, this was artificially making me satisfied, happy,

and feeling like I was surviving when I actually was feeling very miserable the rest of the day.

And not really surviving health wise. So what you have to realize is that every time you give

into this craving, you're going to get more cravings over time. It's going to happen. It's going to

become stronger and stronger over time. And it's very interesting to me that your body can get

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