What Women Need To Know About Their Cycle To Lose Weight & Live Longer ~ Dr. Mindy Pelz

if one of the reasons that people who have had a troubled relationship with food, why fasting, if done responsibly in the right way with support, I wonder if one of the reasons it works so well is because it does reset dopamine and reset someone's entire relationship with food in the first place.

Wow.

So think of dopamine resistance a little bit like insulin resistance.

The mechanisms are not completely similar, but the concept is analogous.

So what we know about people who are obese, people who have food addiction issues, is that when they're eating, they are not getting the same dopamine response that as they used to, and they're not getting the same dopamine response as let's say somebody who doesn't have a food addiction.

So I quote a study in the book was done on obese individuals and they found that it took more food in order for that person who was obese to be able to have pleasure from that food.

So when we talk about food addiction, a lot of it is we gotta keep eating because we're not getting that same dopamine high.

Now you throw in a 48 hour fast and all of a sudden we've got a situation where we've reset that system and you take somebody who's struggled with food addiction, somebody who's trying to reverse obesity, you give them a meal and now they're getting enjoyment out of it.

Now they're like, whoa, I actually love this.

And they're not craving more and more and more.

Yeah.

So, so, so powerful.