Do you have a loved one struggling with addiction, or have you struggled with a similar addiction yourself? Addictions can be one of the most difficult battles we fight in our lives. One of the hardest parts is trying to understand what triggers the addiction and how we find ourselves trapped in suffering over and over again. This article will give you some answers and hope for healing.
Main causes of addiction
You might be surprised to learn that there are two distinct underlying causes of addiction: adrenaline addiction and glucose deficiency. Certainly, other factors can play a role, including emotional stress, intense tension, and feelings of insult. However, there is almost always an adrenaline addiction and a glucose deficiency—or a combination of the two. This remains unknown to medical research and science. From these underlying issues, countless possible addictions arise, including to alcohol, drugs, sex, food, diet soda, extreme sports, and more.
The other unknown reason why people struggle with addiction is due to toxic heavy metals in the brain, such as mercury, copper, and aluminum.
Glucose depletion
To understand addiction, we first need to understand how important glucose is to our bodies. Glucose is a sugar found in fruits, starchy vegetables, and raw honey. Every cell in our body is fueled by glucose. The brain needs critical levels of glucose to function optimally.
When we are deprived of glucose, we are obsessed with getting it from another source because it is crucial for our survival. If you have ever felt desperate for a candy bar, chocolate, a glass of wine, or any white bread or pasta, that is your body craving glucose.
One of the main reasons addiction is so widespread is that almost everyone has some level of insulin resistance due to too much fat in their diet. The more fat that is stored in the bloodstream, organs, digestive tract, and lymphatic fluid, the more insulin is needed to try to push sugar through and around the saturated fat so it can enter the cells and the body can function. Trying to deliver vital glucose to the organs, muscles, and nervous system, overcoming the resistance of excess fat, is the true, unknown meaning of the term "insulin resistance." You can read more about this in the book "Help for the Liver" .
When glucose levels in our body and brain are depleted, we open the door to multiple addictions, such as addiction to refined sugar and alcohol, and set ourselves up for the second major cause of addictions: addiction to adrenaline.
Adrenaline addiction
Glucose is so important to our bodies that it needs to be consumed every hour and a half to two ( see the recipe “10 Snacks for Healthy Adrenals” for an ideal example of such a meal ). If glucose is not available, our adrenal glands begin to release adrenaline into the body so that we can function normally during the day. This release of adrenaline is known as a “rush.” But these days, most of us are running on adrenaline all the time without even realizing what is happening. Adrenaline is not only highly addictive, but it is also destructive to our bodies. It is not meant to be something our bodies rely on day in and day out. The stresses and strains of life, poor food choices, and environmental toxins can all play a role in daily adrenaline rushes.
Addiction to the feeling of adrenaline (usually unconsciously) contributes to almost every addiction pattern, whether it's to drugs, extreme sports, anger, coffee, or anything else.
Glucose depletion and adrenaline addiction can also create symptoms of confusion, brain fog , and fatigue in young people. This can lead to prescriptions for these symptoms and for conditions like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. This is often the case with students who are struggling with their studies—part of what these young people really need is more natural glucose and minerals that their brains use from fruits, leafy greens, and vegetables.
Food addiction
Eating is incredibly important to us humans, but many people experience eating problems. Everyone needs to plan what to eat and when to eat, but it can be terribly confusing with all the misinformation that is being spread.
If you struggle with eating problems, keep in mind that you are not alone. Most people have some kind of problem with food. Some people eat too much, while others don't eat enough. Some people are consumed by worrying about what to eat, while others forget to eat at all.
It’s true that many people use food to cope emotionally, but emotional eating is not just that. Our bodies are completely dependent on food to survive, so it’s important to take a close look at our relationship with food, especially glucose. Often, what’s really causing emotional eating is the body’s desperate call for glucose. During times of stress and emotion, this need is greater because the body uses more glucose to combat the surge of adrenaline that occurs when we’re faced with emotional issues, daily worries, stress, and anxiety.
The right kind of sugar
If you’re constantly reaching for the wrong types of sugar, including alcohol, candy, cakes, sodas, and almost all packaged foods, you’re probably lacking the right kind of glucose in your brain and other vital organs. Because of this, you can become addicted to the wrong kind of sugar. When you crave the wrong sugars, your body is actually seeking out—and desperately needing—the natural sugars in fresh fruits and starchy vegetables. The healing glucose that these foods contain helps the body in countless ways, including by supporting neurotransmitters and helping to prevent addiction.
Sugar-free diets
It's best to stay away from high-fat, sugar-free diets. Your body is designed to run on glucose, so trying to cut out natural sugars can lead to an adrenaline addiction as adrenaline compensates for the lack of glucose. Initially, the adrenaline rush may lead to the desired weight loss, but over time, the corrosive adrenaline that flows through your body can burn out your adrenal glands and create and worsen other serious health conditions. As a result, you may experience adrenal fatigue five to ten years after you've tried a longer-term low-carb diet.
Avoiding the adrenaline rush
If you try to stay away from refined, unhealthy sugars but don't replace those sugars with natural sugars from starchy fruits and vegetables, eventually adrenaline will start flooding your system every time you see your favorite sweet treat or a glass of wine. You may notice that you feel excited or have an internal tremor, which is a sign of an adrenaline rush. Flood your system with healing natural sugars and consume a little glucose every one to two hours to prevent those adrenaline rushes from wreaking havoc on your body.
Your adrenaline will be racing in anticipation of whatever you're addicted to. This means you may be euphoric from the adrenaline coursing through your veins before you've even had a sip of soda, eaten a meal, drunk alcohol, or taken a drug. It's hard to break the cycle of addiction once it's started. That's why it's so important to provide your body with enough sugars from fresh fruits and vegetables.
When treating any type of food addiction, it's important to include leafy greens, especially spinach and thyme, in your daily diet. If you want to break your chocolate addiction, the answer isn't to cut out all sugars. Instead, introduce glucose-rich foods and fruits that will help your brain and body thrive, including dates, cantaloupe, watermelon, mangoes, bananas.
Alcohol addiction
If you're struggling with alcohol addiction, your brain is probably in desperate need of glucose. While the methyl sugar in alcohol can reach your brain quickly, it can also be extremely harmful. Unlike the healing glucose in fruits and vegetables, the methyl sugar in alcohol can cloud your brain over time.
Instead of flooding your brain with the harmful methyl sugar found in alcohol, start flooding your body with the natural glucose it craves. Start replacing wine and vodka with the foods these drinks are made from – grapes and potatoes or whatever fruit you like best. Including all the high-glucose fruits in your diet is crucial when you start to break free from alcohol addiction.
Many people who are addicted to alcohol do not care much about food and get most of their daily calories from alcohol. To break free from this addiction, it is important to regularly eat snacks and meals rich in glucose every day. Dates, dried mango and fresh papaya are especially beneficial.
Drug addiction
If you are addicted to any type of drug, you are likely suffering from glucose deficiency and adrenaline addiction. If you are addicted to opiates, it is possible that you have both an opiate addiction and an adrenaline addiction. Unfortunately, these two addictions can work together to cause even more havoc. Opiate addiction can be extremely difficult to overcome because when a person uses, their adrenaline is working at full power. Amphetamine addiction can be challenging to break because every time a person takes an amphetamine, their adrenal glands flood the body with adrenaline.
To combat drug addiction, it is important to get plenty of minerals from vegetables, leafy greens, and some fruits. A simple way to get minerals is to drink a glass of water with lemon every morning. Another important part is to eat the right kind of glucose, including blueberries, apples, cantaloupe, watermelon, mango, and papaya. Raw honey is another amazing food that is packed with minerals.
It is also important to eat nutritious foods every hour or hour and a half when you are in treatment for drug addiction. Celery and celery juice can be incredibly healing for all addictions, but especially for drug addictions. Celery can also help with the detoxification process by cleansing the liver of toxins, and people with drug addictions usually have extremely congested livers. It is extremely important to understand how the liver works and what it needs. Finding a good doctor, clinic, or rehab facility is also important for drug addicts.
Overcoming addictions
When it comes to fighting addiction, it's essential to fuel your body properly and understand the role of adrenaline. For example, bulimia is a challenging eating disorder to overcome because it's easy to become addicted to the huge adrenaline rush that surges—and can create a euphoric feeling—when the contents of your stomach are pushed up. ( Other factors, including emotional distress and toxic heavy metals in the brain, can also play a role in bulimia .)
Glucose and mineral salts
A lack of glucose in the brain may be the underlying problem in as many as 90% of addictions. That's why eating plenty of fruits, leafy greens, and vegetables is crucial to overcoming any type of addiction.
In addition to their glucose content, many fruits and vegetables are high in minerals that fuel neurotransmitters and support and restore brain health. Spinach and kale are loaded with healing mineral salts. Other mineral-rich fruits include cranberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, apples, tomatoes, cucumbers, kiwi, dates, and watermelon.
To understand the importance of these natural mineral salts, let's look at the brain. The brain is filled with neurons. Each neuron has an electrical impulse that travels from one side of the neuron to the other with the help of neurotransmitter chemicals. These electrical impulses need sodium, potassium, magnesium, and glucose to successfully travel through the neurons.
Unfortunately, when someone experiences severe stress or emotional turmoil, neurotransmitter chemicals are depleted and the electrical impulses no longer have the support they need to travel through the neurons. The electrical impulses can heat up as they try to travel through the neurons and, as a result, start to short out. If someone has enough electrical impulses in their brain, they can become addicted to things like junk food, because brain fog , confusion, and fatigue often lead to excessive hunger. At these times, what the body really needs are glucose and mineral salts, which can cool down the electrical impulses and help the neurotransmitter chemicals.
Detoxification from toxic heavy metals
Incorporating a daily detox from toxic heavy metals is another critical practice to incorporate, as toxic heavy metals can be addictive. Clearing the brain of heavy metals will allow the neurotransmitters to rebuild and function again. The Healer Medium’s Heavy Metal Detox Smoothie is a great way to get your daily intake of the five essential heavy metal detox foods: cilantro, wild blueberries (or wild bilberry powder ), spirulina , barley grass juice powder , and Atlantic dulse .
Medicinal foods and nutritional supplements
* GABA and 5-HT to support neurotransmitter chemicals.
* Organic lemon balm for the nerves and brain.
* California poppy to help overcome any type of addiction.
* Inositol or any supplement that contains inositol.
* Vitamin C supports the adrenal glands and heals nerves that have been damaged by previous adrenaline rushes. Look for Vimergy® Micro-C .
* Passionflower and elderberry tea for the nervous system.
* Vitamin B-12 with adenosylcobalamin and methylcobalamin is crucial, and a high-quality B-complex supplement can be extremely supportive.
* Valerian can be really helpful, although it may not be best for someone with a sensitive stomach or sensitive nerves.
* Ginger can help overcome addictions.
* Barley grass juice powder and spirulina are powerful foods that are packed with minerals and can support neurotransmitters as well as remove heavy metals from the body and brain.
* Fennel is an amazing food for fighting addictions, full of mineral salts and vitamin C. If you are looking for a healing drink, try making fennel and celery juice.
* Wild blueberries , the most powerful food on the planet, can be an amazing addition to your diet while you heal.
Consult a medical practitioner who can help you determine which supplements and foods best support you.
Reducing your fat intake can also help stabilize your adrenal glands and neurotransmitters and allow your body to absorb more mineral- and glucose-rich foods. If you love meat, try cutting your meat intake in half. If you eat a high-fat plant-based diet, try reducing the total amount of fat you consume.
How to move forward
Being human isn't easy these days, and dealing with addiction can be a tough battle. Know that you're not alone—many people struggle with addictions of all kinds. There are reasons for addiction, and there are steps you can take to give your body the support, nutrition, and supplements it needs to overcome any addiction.
See the continuation of the article in "Anthony William talks about addictions (part 2)" .
