Dr. Jeffrey Gladden explains how a 5-day fasting-mimicking diet resets your gut bacteria, which are literally signaling your brain to eat more. The diet lowers ghrelin, the hunger hormone, and quiets the sugar-loving bacteria that drive cravings.
You are basically growing a garden of sugar-loving bacteria. And when they don't get sugar, they start moaning about it. And they're sending signals to the brain, hey, hey, hey, what about us? Right? It's like little birds in a, in a nest. Feed us, right? So you can actually reset the gut biome by doing the 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet. You can quiet that noise. So when you think about food noise, some of it is psychological, some of it is gut biome creating it, and some of it is the level of ghrelin in your brain. So when you do the 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet as a start, harder, then you're resetting all of that, and that's what you want to do.
