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@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP As a 40 year food/carb addict I would have to agree. And keto carnivore combined with hyperthermic stress exercise was the only thing that was able to break addiction to hyperpalatable engineered foods. A number of #LowCarbDenver #lowcarbdenver2019 have noted that carnivore 1/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP diet seemed the key to making the difference in addictive eating. Heroin addicts in recovery report of having to cover their own arms with long sleeve shirts for YEARS so triggering is the sight of their own veiny forearms. The intense pleasure of exogenous opiates coupled 2/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP the sight of their own body part that precedes the rush of the drug forms as associating that is extremely powerful. Similarly in food addiction packaging & advertising and even the sight of a convenience store sign can trigger a food binge early in recovery. In my addict 3/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP years. There were times I was concerned that if I lived within walking distance of a 7/11 my addiction would have a dangerous outlet to unlimited sweet foods. I could keep no ice cream cake or cookies in the house. The carb cravings would have me overeating cereal bread pasta 4/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP rice etc. Interestingly the only nights I did not overeat where the nights I was going to have sex. It wasn't just the abdominal discomfort but it was more that the two intense pleasurable highs would complete with each other. The compulsive addictive behaviors of eating 5/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP exercising sex porn tv watching all had to be separated by intervals that allowed reset of the hedonic signaling system. Years of this caused down regulation of pleasure receptors resulting in the need for hyper stimulation and increasing dosages. The brain retraining took 6/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP months to years. Carb addicts cannot understand that the so called restrictive diet of Keto carnivore is actually liberating. With the brain and body adequately nourished and fat adapted there is no disordered relationship with food. One just eats when hungry. If there is no 7/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP suitable food one just does not eat exogenous energy but feasts on stored calories which the fat adapted have easy access to. @jvcderby referred to this as "like being superman". Independently I recently have been calling fat adaptation my "secret super power". Eat not eat it 8/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP @jvcderby makes no difference. Like the Mongolian horseman who could eat massive amounts of meat and fat and then not eat for days while they were savaging the grain eating multi meal agriculturalists Keto carnivore see the world in a completely difference. When I tell people that I 9/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP @jvcderby one meal a day or every two days they have no idea what I am talking about. It is as if I said I only breathe once a day. And when I say that it is effortless and results in enhanced mood focus energy endurance productivity health and biomarkers the responses vary from 10/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP @jvcderby amazement to disbelief to curiosity to horror to outright rejection. And when I recount the myriad physical&mental ills in remission they are stuck in a massive cognitive dissonance reaction that can be quite disconcerting for them. What is interesting to me is that high IQ 11/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP @jvcderby medical professionals are either not curious or are outright dismissive. I cannot blame them. If a black suited man came to me and told me that everything I know and built my life on was wrong and I was living in a dream completely hypnotized. I might have a bit of trouble 12/n
@DoctorTro @lowcarbGP @jvcderby with that at first and it might take more than a few moments to integrate that into my world view. 13/13. END
