Gary Brecka argues that processed foods are engineered to bypass your body's satiety signals, keeping you hungry and overeating. Diet sodas with aspartame trigger dopamine hits without making you feel full. People in Blue Zones, where people live longest, share one thing: they don't eat processed food.
Processed foods are designed to circumvent human physiology. Big Pharma and Big Food have known this for decades. Their entire research labs are designed to do nothing more than circumvent your response to GLP-1 to allow you to take in high amounts of calories and secrete zero GLP-1. GLP-1 is a hormone that's released in the gut in response to nutrient density. Why are they addicted to diet sodas? Not because it tastes amazing. It's because that aspartame was hammering the RF1A2 receptor. They were getting a dopamine reward every time they drank that. This is why whole foods is the secret to longevity. This is why all of the blue zones had the absence of processed foods, not the presence of a dogmatic diet.
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