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Scientists Just Proved Your Food Is Designed Like Crack. Day 8. 306 lbs. · Connor with Honor: AI, Real Estate and Real Life

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  SPEAKER_00: Day eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: 317 to 306.
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  SPEAKER_00: And don't celebrate too quick.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's 11 pounds in eight days.
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  SPEAKER_00: And before anybody says that's not sustainable, let me tell you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not on a diet, I'm in recovery.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I've been in recovery for 50 something years.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a difference between that and uh and most people don't understand it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people who sell you meal plans and macros and 21-day challenges will never explain it to you because it would destroy their business model.
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  SPEAKER_00: A diet assumes you have a controllable relationship with food that just needs a little tweaking, a little adjusting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Recovery assumes the relationship is broken.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're watching this show, the relationship that's probably broken.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mine was broken for a very long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hit it behind discipline in every other area of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wore badge, carried a gun, trained officers how to shoot straight under pressure, radar laser, DRE drugs, all sorts of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: I could have fasted, I could fast for days, I could live for hours, I could build businesses from scratch, but I couldn't walk to bag of chips without a negotiation in my head that I was going to lose.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not a willpower problem, that's an addiction.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the science finally agrees with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we're talking science.
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  SPEAKER_00: A research team at the University of Michigan published a patron, a paper in Nature Medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: They reviewed nearly 300 studies across 36 countries.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their conclusion, ultra-processed foods, hijacks the brain's reward system.
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  SPEAKER_00: They trigger cravings, loss of control, continued use despite harmful consequences.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are the exact same diagnostic criteria used for cocaine, for alcohol, for nicotine, for gambling.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lead researchers said we could have created, we created a food environment flooded with products that function more like nicotine than nutrition.
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  SPEAKER_00: The children are the primary targets.
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  SPEAKER_00: FDA and National Institutes of Health have now launched a joint initiative modeled after the Tobacco Regulatory Science Program.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're applying the same addiction science framework to food that they applied to cigarettes.
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  SPEAKER_00: For 40 years, the conversation's been about calories, about exercise, about portion control.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the whole time the food itself was engineered to be addictive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not all food, nobody's really addicted to broccoli, I don't think.
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  SPEAKER_00: But chips, cookies, soda, pizza, cereal, those granola bars that say healthy on the label, heart healthy, those products are designed to hit your brain rapidly, intensely, and repeatedly.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the exact language we use to describe how crack cocaine works.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I say this not as a doctor, not as a nutritionist, not as a guru standing on stage.
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  SPEAKER_00: I say this as an addict sitting here with other addicts.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're not weak, you're not a disciplined, and you're not lazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're just fighting something that's been designed to beat you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The food company spent billions on engineering products to hijack the same neural pathway that heroin uses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then society told you that it was your fault for eating too much.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, so what do we do?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do we do?
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  SPEAKER_00: What we do with every addict that's in the recovery program, what they've ever done.
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  SPEAKER_00: We start with honesty, we admit the relationship's broken, we remove the substance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not all food.
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  SPEAKER_00: That would be impossible.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to eat, but we remove the engineered food, the processed food, the product designed to keep us coming back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meat, fish, vegetables, water, that's the protocol.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we sit and with the discomfort because the withdrawal's real.
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  SPEAKER_00: The research confirms it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is now early evidence for ultra-processed food withdrawal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same irritability, same anxiety, same cravings.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt it on day three.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt it on day five when the scale bounced back up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel it now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hit 301 on day two on day four, 311.5 on day six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I'm back at 306.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not failure.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's my body adjusting to not having the poison and me, well, having the poison when I shouldn't have been.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's recovery.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a single straight line down.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a fight every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the day we don't fight perfectly are actually not the days we failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are the days we stayed in the ring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Day eight, 306 pounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: 52 to go, 35 days left.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you don't have to look for your why.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just have to embrace your do.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can check out more at thelastaddiction.com, and I will see you tomorrow.