TJ Power

Our gut really wants all these natural foods, and that could be a vegetarian diet, could be a meat diet, but it wants foods that were here on Earth before we got here as humanity.

When those foods turn up, they break down into a variety of amino acids like tryptophan.

Tryptophan is a key building block for serotonin.

There is a life where you only eat natural foods.

I really believe it to be possible.

For many people that are within our dose lab process, they've come from lots of UPF diets to diets where there is literally zero UPF.

And that could seem almost extreme.

It could seem like diet culture, but it's really not.

Like it's not dieting to only eat natural foods.

It's really just what the body has wanted for a long time.

And the longer you go with just natural foods, the more your craving for this modern diet begins to reduce.

Ultra-processed food.

Right.

There's a lot of stuff in ultra processed foods that's very intentionally designed to really impact how our body connects with food.

We have these two hormones within the gut, ghrelin and leptin.

Ghrelin makes us really hungry.

Leptin makes us full.

The UPFs are quite strategically designed to make our ghrelin go crazy.

So we're super hungry and our leptin to switch off.

So we're not full at all.