I'm So Effing Hungry: Why we crave what we crave - and what to do about it

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My mission is to revolutionize the way we think about hunger and nutrition, and to help people manage hunger and cravings and break free from the tyranny of diets and battles with food. I’ve seen my program work for people all over the world. And it will work for you, too.” —from the introduction by Dr. Amy Shah Psychobiotics are bacteria that can change the entire mental state of a person. Researchers took patients with schizophrenia, looked at their microbiome, and observed distinct differences. In fact, the researchers could tell which patients had schizophrenia just by looking at their microbiome. They next took this microbiome and transplanted it into germ-free mice. They also took non-schizophrenic gut bacteria and put it into other germ-free mice. They then mixed all the mice up and found that the mice that had received the schizophrenic bacteria started to display mice schizophrenia. The gut researchers knew which animals had received that bacteria because of their behavior. The best probiotic is exercise, especially a sunny walk. A walk outdoors has a magical effect on our gut bacteria, our hormones, and our mood. Gut bacteria create a compound called short chain fatty acids in response to exercise, especially nature-based exercise. They send these anti-inflammatory signals to the brain, and around the entire body, to calm down inflammation, improve mood, and make you more satisfied.

We know that the microbiome has power to control our cravings, to make us happier, to make better decisions. What we didn’t realize until recently, however, is that it takes only three days to start to see marked changes in the microbiome. “We want both diversity in our microbiome and we want higher numbers.” Drawing on the emerging science of psychobiotics – healthy gut bacteria that improve mood and regulate hunger, weight and cravings – Dr Shah has created a 5-step plan to help you make peace with food and Ghrelin is a hunger hormone that signals we should eat; a reminder from the body that it might be good to get nutrients. It’s released on a timeline — usually in the morning, then around noon, then late in the afternoon and finally in the evening, Shah says. We can use exercise in different ways, but the simplest way is just to go outside and get time in nature. Our gut bacteria have circadian rhythms, so they get input from our body when we are in nature, and when we’re moving. This has great effects on our mood, our cravings, and our behavior. 5. Psychobiotics are the new frontier in medicine. This book summarises the science behind cravings, debunks mainstream myths about hunger and provides you with actionable, science-based strategies to manage excessive hunger and cravings.The doctor agreed with the favorite advice of a woman whose weight-loss journey was profiled by TODAY.com: If you’re not hungry enough for an apple, you’re not hungry enough. Hunger is sometimes just a suggestion STEP 5. RETRAIN: your body with exercise that regulates key neurotransmitters that influence our hunger response. Gut-brain connection is something that is so new to people. It’s a big paradigm change. We always think that we eat what we feel like eating, and it has little effect except for the calories that we consume. But food is information for your gut bacteria. And your gut bacteria, along with your immune system and all of the neurochemicals there, will determine your cravings, how inflamed you are, and your mood. Our cravings drive our behavior. So she created I'm So Effing Hungry, a science-based plan designed to help you take charge of your health and your cravings, without feeling deprived. Cravings aren't your fault and eating a healthier diet isn't just a matter of self-discipline or willpower. There are powerful biological forces at play in your body that govern your hunger levels and cravings.

So she created I’m So Effing Hungry, a science-based plan designed to help you take charge of your health and your cravings, without feeling deprived. As Dr. Shah explains, cravings aren’t your fault—and eating a healthier diet isn’t just a matter of self-discipline or willpower. There are powerful biological forces at play in your body that govern your hunger levels and cravings. I know the struggle is not over yet, but at the very least I got what this book was supposed to deliver: all the knowledge and the tools to start living better and making better life choices. I know which foods I have to reach out for at the supermarket, the importance of fasting, exposing to sunlight and many other useful info. My mission is to revolutionize the way we think about hunger and nutrition, and to help people manage hunger and cravings and break free from the tyranny of diets and battles with food. I've seen my program work for people all over the world. And it will work for you, too. --from the introduction by Dr. Amy Shah Dr. Amy Shah is an MD specialist in Allergy & Immunology and Internal Medicine. She pursued her medical training at Columbia University Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconness/Harvard Medical School, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Cornell University.Drawing on the emerging science of psychobiotics - healthy gut bacteria that improve mood and regulate hunger, weight and cravings - Dr Shah has created a 5-step plan to help you make peace with food and Drawing on the emerging science of psychobiotics—healthy gut bacteria that help improve mood and regulate hunger, weight, and cravings—Dr. Shah has created a 5-step plan to help you make peace with food and your body: So she created I'm So Effing Hungry, a science-based plan designed to help you take charge of your health and your cravings, without feeling deprived. As Dr. Shah explains, cravings aren't your fault--and eating a healthier diet isn't just a matter of self-discipline or willpower. There are powerful biological forces at play in your body that govern your hunger levels and cravings. As an Indian immigrant, I came to the U.S. with my parents when I was five years old. A few years into settling in the U.S., we got very bad news. My father, along with his five brothers and my grandmother, all had been diagnosed with type two diabetes. This was a devastating diagnosis at the time.

Drawing on the emerging science of psychobiotics--healthy gut bacteria that help improve mood and regulate hunger, weight, and cravings--Dr. Shah has created a 5-step plan to help you make peace with food and your body:This book is full of precious insights that can be applied to our daily lives and while being scientifically accurate, she's always engaging and delivers each topic and lots of info in a way that can be put into practice right away. I've always felt a bit "lost" with my cravings and my excessive consumption of junk food, but for once, I feel like I know the chemistry behind it, the hormones at play, and why these cravings were happening to me so frequently and kind of controlling my life. My mission is to revolutionize the way we think about hunger and nutrition, and to help peoplemanage hunger and cravings and break free from the tyranny of diets and battles with food. I've seen my program work for people all over the world. And it will work for you, too." —from the introduction by Dr. Amy Shah

We want to change our cravings. We want to change our happiness. We want to change our inflammation levels. The power is in our hands and we can do it through diet. 4. The best probiotic we can take is exercise. In an industry oversaturated with health and diet advice, Dr Amy Shah cuts through the noise with her newest book, I'm So Effing Hungry. It's amazing what changes can be made with a little knowledge and simple solutions. You'll love this book! - Bobbi Brown Dr Shah is at the frontier of gut health. This revolutionary book is the first of its kind to share the secrets of how psychobiotics work, and it's a much-needed resource for anyone trying to understand the wiring of their brain. - Bestselling author and host of Change with Ed Mylett

I'm So Effing Hungry breaks down the physiological aspects of hunger, how it happens (like the hormones that are released and why) and how it can be manipulated by the bacteria in our gut and the foods that we eat. I really appreciated Dr. Shah's comprehensive overview of how hunger works in the body. Maybe I just missed this particular Heath class, but I don't remember learning this in school, so I found almost every part of it to be enlightening. A 2014 landmark study asked patients to make a large, rapid change to their diet—from a highly processed meat-based diet to a highly unprocessed vegetable-based diet. Then they observed them for two weeks. What they found is it took only three days to see a marked change in the various types of bacteria and the number of bacteria. Therefore, we want both diversity in our microbiome and we want higher numbers, and that can start to happen within three days. We can transplant behavior, we can transplant mood, and we can transplant cravings just by changing the gut microbiome. This is the new wave of the future. We can cure disease, mental health, and physical health by changing our gut because our gut bacteria communicate with our immune system, hormones, and nervous system, creating change throughout our body.