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welcome to Hawthorne University’s webinar series and it’s our first presentation of 2018 I think that’s the first time I’m saying that out loud – so welcome I’m Paula barthélemy and I’m just so delighted to be able to facilitate this production because today we’re so pleased to have best-selling author and nutrition and overeating expert Julia Ross with us presenting the cravings cure how to identify and activate your natural appetite control so hello Julia it’s so great to have you back with us at Hawthorne Thank You Paula I’m glad to be with you again my fellow Pioneer that yes fellow pioneers we are let me introduce you a little bit here and get us started Julia yes is our pioneer here she’s our expert today she’s a pioneer in the use of nutritional therapy for the treatment of eating disorders and addictions and mood problems she’s a director of several integrative treatment clinics in San Francisco Bay Area since 1980 and she’s trained and certified health professionals and she lectures widely she’s the author of several best-selling books notably the mood cure the diet cure and her newest release is the craving secure her work has been featured broadly and publications from vogue to the Journal of American Psychological Association as well as online television and more if you want to hear and find out more about Julia’s work check out the website at Julia Ross cures calm Julia is going to share more about how we contracted this epidemic about natural weight gain and diabetes and dialate diet related conditions there’s a fabulous questionnaire that really helps us identify the unique cravings profiles and she’ll be addressing the food addiction where it starts in the brain go over some eating guidelines and get really deep into how to use amino acid therapy to neutralize cravings so Julia I want to let you get started now but I want to let everybody know that there’ll be time for questions and answers after Judy Julia’s presentation but at any time during the prison don’t hesitate just post your questions to the webinar panel and I want to let everybody you know this new book that dot the craving secure Julie is gonna give a copy of it away at the end of the webinar so there’ll be a survey to fill out you’ll be able to fill it out for an opportunity to win that I think that’s it actually I’m gonna turn this over to you well thank you Paul thank you for your many years of support it’s always a pleasure to work with you and I’m glad to collaborate with Hawthorn tonight many people have asked me why I wrote a third book why I wrote the craving cure and I’d like to begin this presentation by explaining why the diet care was my first book and I threw everything into it that I knew but at that time I’d only been directing nutritional therapy programs for 15 years a few years later I decided that I didn’t say enough about how the nutritional therapy that we developed at my clinics improved the bad mood epidemic that was overcoming us and a number of years later five years to be exact I looked back what had been accomplished by my books and I saw that hundreds of thousands of people in this country and other countries had read the book had benefited from the book but that it was a drop in the bucket when we look at the what I call the dietary apocalypse that’s overtaking us now in this country and being exported abroad and I talked to people and I looked at the books and I made a decision that the diet cure as useful and broad-ranging as it is did not give enough information about that the techniques of turning off cravings within 24 hours I gave 30 pages to what I regard as the only method available in the world at this time and probably ever for turning off turning back the the tide of toxic commercial food that’s engulfing us now and so I decided that I was going to write a book that would give 300 pages to this important technique and in fact I’ve given 400 pages because not only have I added 15 years worth of increased experience using the amino acids to alter faulty brain chemistry and specifically to turn off the the chemical cravings that are so powerful now but I also felt that I needed to explain more about how the brain works and how things have changed since the 1970s when the problems that we’re seeing now we’re really in their early stages I’m going to cover all of that in more detail in this presentation but I wanted to give you an idea why I made this decision five years ago and have been working on this book ever since there are two audiences for this book one of them is the lay reader I wanted the lay reader to have every detail needed very specific directions for how to use each amino acid and how to determine which amino acids would be appropriate for their use but I also wanted to give professionals a manual so that they would understand exactly what to do when confronted with most of their clients you know most of the clients that any holistic professional sees and most of the clients that in a conventional health professional sees these days are suffering fundamentally from food poisoning and if we can’t spare them if we can’t rescue them from toxic condition and allow them to eat healing foods than all of our efforts are stymied very very seriously so for both lay and professional readers I’m sharing 30 years of work with over 4,000 clients most of whom have benefited hugely from these actually extremely simple techniques and here is the the life raft that I hope you will all grasp and make good you seven and find valuable for yourselves and others let’s start with the fundamentals of this presentation yes I’m gonna interrupt just a minute I’m so sorry but I’m gonna ask you to move your mic away from your mouth just a little bit so we’ve got cleaner sound let me know if that’s enough okay I will great so let’s start with the fundamentals nutritional therapy really is the hope of the world and therefore the majority of you nutritional therapy professionals listening in to this seminar have my my greatest respect and and hope you know I really I personally hope that you can join me in giving this technology to all the people who need it and spreading it trained other people do whatever is needed to make use of this information but I myself am NOT a nutritionist and I’d like to say just a little bit about that in fact I’m a psychotherapist with a master’s degree in clinical psychology and the reason that I think I I’ve been able to contribute a lot by joining forces with the with the nutritionists out there is that my specific expertise as a psychotherapist was in the field of addiction and in fact I was one of the pioneers in that field as well actually developing the first addiction treatment models in the San Francisco Bay Area and that was in the late 70s by 1980 when I became the director of the program that I had entered as an intern these were the results this is what we did shaved with all of our hard work alcohol addiction 50% relapse food addiction we had a new program treating overeating as formal addiction at that time seventy to ninety percent relapse cocaine addiction which was the new epidemic in the early 80s 100% relapse in 24 hours so if I needed a clearer signpost stop sign post I couldn’t have gotten anything that would have really grabbed my attention any more than this and I knew that what I was doing wasn’t working that I couldn’t ethically continue to do it that there had to be another way and sure enough there was another way and I took it and this presentation is about that other way but before I go on to describe that path I just want to say that today because addiction treatment continues to use techniques that never worked in the first place we have 90 to 100 percent relapse rates in all areas crack meth opiates benzos behaviors and because of our failure we have increasing death rates related to drug addiction a managed 7 million a year worldwide but that that’s nothing compared to the the death rate associated with compulsive eating or food addiction which at this point amounts to at least 38 million deaths worldwide from diet related illness and this is why I made my decision to write a third book specifically to try and counteract this deadly epidemic I call the book the craving cure because craving is a word that’s relatively neutral but that everyone recognizes in themselves we have defined our cravings as you know forms of gluttony poor will we will power loss of control lack of motivation there are lots of ways we’ve tried to explain this to ourselves but it’s continued to rule our lives increasingly destructively because we haven’t understood what it was what is the compulsion one of the reasons that it’s been so difficult for us to grasp the nature of our relationship to food has been because of the cleverness of the food industry and these kinds of images that really reflect the feeling that we have when we eat the foods that we then crave insatiably so not only does it seem like fun and how could fun be destructive let alone deadly but it’s our own fault if we keep eating it and this is a technique that’s know it you know been consciously used in the food industry for quite some time brought to our attention by the great whistleblower former FDA chief david kessler in his fascinating book the end of overeating which is post in 2010 i believe and he quoted industry chiefs that were his friends and colleagues for so many years talking about how great it was that they could get people to it convinced that it’s their own fault if they had lost control of their eating and what a shame it was that the very things that had allowed them to create products that would overwhelm people’s ability to to control we’re all so hazardous to their health so he published the book you know I wrote the book ten years it was writing the book ten years ago he got the information before that and this kind of mentality is is what has made it so difficult for us to recognize and come to grips with what’s happening fortunately the figures are so staggering now that scientific resources all over the world are focused on understanding what the cause of these disasters health disasters and wate disasters are and in fact Nora Volkow who’s the chief of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States is a neuroscientist herself and has conducted many of their studies specifically on food addiction and she estimates that about sixty percent of Americans are formerly addicted so biochemically impaired so that they can not choose to step away from their use of sugars starches and damaged fats all damaged highly refined and drug like by her estimation and by the estimation of many other scientists worldwide who’ve been publishing almost weekly research comes out identifying the physiological brain centered nature of our dilemma I think I skipped something here yes so I want to specify that dilemma in 2002 the obesity epidemic was announced it was almost unknown before the 1970s but thirty percent of us by 2002 were formally identified as as obese by 2014 46 percent of us had become formally identified as obese and more devastating between 1970 and 2016 the diabetes rate has risen from 1 percent to 50 percent so that’s almost incalculable health disaster since diabetes is often a fatal illness associated with increased cancers heart disease kidney disease amputation it goes on and on I and I have a chapter on the 1970s I lived through them as a young adult and it was quite a fascinating time it was very exciting the music was great but something occurred during that decade that I believe is largely responsible for the condition we’re in now nutritionally in our enthusiasm in our you know excitement about change that characterized the 1970s we made five radical alterations in the diet that humanity had been consuming for roughly two million years we did its blithely with gusto and without any real examination of the consequences so let’s just take a look quickly at how we got here saturated fat was the villain and started this whole fundamental alteration in our diet by cutting saturated fat by 40 percent the first step was taken because protein high-protein foods meats poultry cheese and so forth contained significant amounts of saturated fat they were also targeted but also this was a time when spiritual leaders from other countries were coming here and were very persuasive in terms of their dietary recommendations you know that spirituality was really linked with a vegetarian diet or a vegan diet even the reason that protein intake cut by 1/3 is in italics is because this will be the theme of the rest of this presentation this fact and the consequences of it another extremely fateful decision was to develop and release high fructose syrups and this was a powerful move on the part of the food industry in furthering its goal of creating a certain kind of brain effect which really wasn’t entirely successful the Bliss point technology wasn’t entirely successful until fructose was introduced as the primary sweetener in the American and now the worldwide diet but we also began to grow an entirely new strain of wheat dwarf wheat and the one of long term consequences was that the amount of gluten in our diet increased certainly the the number of products that contain refined white versions of this substance have increased right along with our fructose ingestion to create high-calorie low-nutrient brain balms another factor that really became cemented during the 70’s and has certainly been a fact of life ever since is voluntary starvation for the first time in human history so these this is the news as of the 1970s that has permeated our lives and our health ever since and has has made it so we our our average diet consists nutrient void it’s basically a high-calorie drug delivery system rather than a life-sustaining reality for us so let’s get to brain nutrition because the brain is really in charge and it’s in charge of everything that we do but what I’m going to be focusing on right now and what I focus on the book is how the brain controls our appetite specifically well it’s let’s let’s dwell on this just a little bit more so when the when the brain is functioning optimally as as it was genetically programmed to do up and up until our genetics began to erode the programming began to become faulty over the last 50 years we were essentially free of compulsion to to eat toxic food we were happy with the conventional diet which was pretty much the same as it had been for hundreds of thousands or millions of years really so the whole goal of the craving here is to return us and return our brain specifically to to be able to empower us once again to choose what we eat and to step away from what does not serve our survival and and and and so in order to cure the epidemics of of overweight and health loss I want us to target we’ve got to target the brain but it’s not a complicated business we only need to work with five nutrients in order to accomplish this huge really revolution and they’re all useful because they target a specific part of the brains appetite chemistry it’s a five part powerhouse that the brain has going but just a very few individual amino acid concentrates can normalize all of it so let’s get a little closer into it what we’re looking at in the brain in this five part appetite control process is composed of four neurotransmitters these are gigantically powerful chemicals and many of us are familiar with at least two of them serotonin our natural antidepressant and endorphin our natural painkiller and pleasure enhancer extraordinary we’re hearing a lot because of the brain science of food addiction now about dopamine which is not only stimulating and strengthening activating but but also provides us with a certain kind of powerful sense of reward and finally the neurotransmitter gaba which gamma-aminobutyric acid is our natural tranquilizer and when all of these lovely natural powers are at play we’re there satisfied and food is capable of stimulating all of them and when I say hoot I mean healthy food we have always enjoyed our dinners our lunches and our breakfasts because our brain allowed us to enjoy them and in all these four different ways the the simplicity of our task here is creating cures is that each of these powerhouse bringing appetite regulators is composed of as few as one amino acid so again it’s a formidable task but the solution is is really very simple so for those of you who aren’t clear on what amino acids are they are there are 20 of them they each have a spectacularly long name and very specific functions in the body they interact in thousands of ways to make all of our tissues from bone to muscle to the tiny neurotransmitters that that regulate our moods and our sensations so one of the things we have to understand is that that bliss point technology that I talked about a little earlier is designed by you know food scientists who overstimulate to target and over stimulate these particular brain neurotransmitters and they are the same neurotransmitters that alcohol and drugs impact and so the cravings that alcohol and drug addicts have once their brain neurotransmitters have been tampered with and it’s in this way are very similar to the kinds of cravings that that that we have for you know chocolate chip pasta ice cream whatever so in the course of this sort of explosive activity in the brain as a result of the invasion of these drug like substances what we notice since we we’re not aware of the exact brain chemistry as it goes a little long is that we were developing these overwhelming cravings we can’t control what we eat in spite of knowledge and motivation in spite of you know the threat of death we have many clients who come to us who have been diagnosed with diet related cancers let alone diabetes and still it’s that motivation to save their own lives is not strong enough because it turns out that the cravings for food are even stronger than the cravings for alcohol and drugs and the negative moods that that result further our need for for the kinds of drug sensations that we get that are so similar to alcohol drug sensations in addition to the kind of deficiency that results just from the assault of these foods so that the neurotransmitters aren’t producing a natural sense of satisfaction of positive mood and energy the fact that we’re more highly stressed partly because of our general malnutrition our dependence on caffeine which you know stimulates adrenaline and the the high cortisol levels that are the result of our sort of increasing numbers of there’s weather you know personal financial health or nutritional and then we have that fundamental decision that we made in the 70s to reduce the amount of protein that unconscious decision in for many people and of course who wants protein when you have a drug like ho-ho in front of you so we just don’t have the the nutritional fortitude we don’t have the supplies the amino acid supplies from the protein in our diet to sustain the brain let alone to help repair it from the trauma of of the frequent junk food assaults so before we go to the cure aspect of this presentation I’d like to just mention that there is a one more a fifth aspect to our craving the brain genesis of our craving and that is that it’s very difficult for the brain to sustain stable blood sugar because it can’t store as the muscles can do glucose and get you know ready access to it so it’s very common for us when since we’re not eating regular meals anymore since we’re eating high sugar high refined starch foods that crescendo our glucose levels which then crashed because of the the insulin release that follows it that we are in a chronic state of hypoglycemia and that alone causes overwhelming cravings for carbohydrates anything that can be converted quickly into the glucose in the bloodstream and arrive quickly to the brain so it’s the fifth target of our creating cure now I did not invent amino acid therapy it really was the it was the very commonsensical conclusion an exploration of some of the too few but some of the neuro scientists who had come on the scene in the 1970s and had been studying the brain and learning about the neurotransmitters one of them in particular Kenneth Blum but in addition scientists from MIT and others worldwide were focusing on the brain dynamic underlying addiction to alcohol and cocaine initially and then and then later the impact of food on the brain so what he did was to understand to learn to understand the neurotransmitters very early on dr. Bluhm and then he brought to bear a very simple fact that everyone even college level physiology students is aware of and that is that the neurotransmitters are composed of very simple chemical contents they’re made out of specific amino acids and and he began to provide studies with cocaine alcohol and then food addicts showing that providing these basic constituents of the neurotransmitters these these constituent nutrients of the neurotransmitters could in concentrated form make a dramatic difference in terms of cravings and mood and because I was embroiled in this question of how else can we address addiction I was the director of a program that had 100% relapse rates I was fascinated by all of the new information explaining that our cravings were generated in the brain and then that one of these experts was actually pointing the direction that seemed so safe and simple I was already employing nutritionists and we were telling people to eat better but they couldn’t because of their brain chemistry aberrations causing such powerful food cravings especially when they tried to stay away from alcohol and drugs but my nutritionist also seeing the frustration we’re eager to explore this new avenue with me and we began to do pilot projects with a few clients using the amino acid concentrates and some information that allowed us to know which amino acids in supplement form would be most likely to impact that one whose serotonin levels were low whose endorphin levels were lows dopamine levels were low whose GABA levels were though were low or who might also have policy Nia so that was the beginning for us and that was in 1986 subsequently dr. Bluhm with with others has conducted some studies particularly the important are these well this one that I would like to talk to you about now 1997 was published and had it actually been the study itself had been conducted several years prior taking 250 Opta fasters who completed their 500 calorie a day regimen lost a significant amount of weight and were studied two years later this was a study that provided them with or at least half of them were provided with a relatively small amount of tryptophan combined with an amino acid blend called dl phenylalanine this this image is unfortunately left off two critical words in addition to those two amino supplements this study provided the amino acid glutamine so this was a formula and in spite of the fact that as a formula it couldn’t contain that many of each of the amino acids by combining them it was able to target four out of the five appetite regulating neurotransmitters with fuels that could increase their function and their hope was that it would increase it very quickly well they found that indeed it did and the the conclusions were remarkable and they were compared to the conclusions of the other up to fasters the controls who did not get the amino acids but got a very low potency of vitamin mineral they the controls had no loss of craving so they continued at a hundred percent craving there was a 70 percent loss of craving among those who were taking this blend of amino acids among the controls 40 percent regained the weight versus 15 percent of the amino acid takers and it’s important to know that none of these people after leaving the Optive hasp program were given any nutritional advice so fast forward to a study of glutamine given at the doses that we typically use now which is 1500 is an average dose three times a day done in Italy quite recently to much fanfare they also gave no nutritional advice in fact they said don’t make any efforts to diet while you’re in this study just go about your business do whatever you feel like doing and what they found was that they dropped 25% of their calorie intake with no effort whatsoever which was about 500 calories a day and there they were very pleased with not only some weight especially at the way the waste that was lost but also that all of these people who were pre-diabetic had insulin drops of 20% so I’m just giving you some examples of you know how substantial this amino acid therapy is and then in terms of our experience with it since 1988 with the 4,000 clients or more that we’ve worked with we will often see now as you’ll as you’ll find out actually witness the elimination of cravings and negative moods in as little as five minutes using these five brain targeted amino acids so about the time that I published the diet cure we were seeing and there were a couple of studies confirming about 83% of the Overeaters and our programs were experiencing complete relief of their cravings which was extraordinarily high but since 1990 it’s risen to over 90% and again many of these people experiencing within 24 hours so why the improvement you know what what is in the the heart of the craving cure the two chapters on amino acid therapy that take each amino acid very specifically in terms of how to choose it how to trial it how to how to monitor dosing and adjust dosing is needed in how to terminate the use of the amino for example we know now that if anybody has an adverse reaction to an amino we can add to doubt it in minutes with a thousand to 2,000 milligrams of vitamin C powder dissolved in water and there’s a trailing has been a tremendous innovation and it’s loads of fun and is tremendously helpful in creating confidence in the client because they see right away this is worth doing my compliance on these aminos is going to be hundred-percent we’ve also learned to use the the neurotransmitter and blood sugar level assessment tool throughout frequently throughout our tact with clients so that we know exactly which aminos are doing what and what else needs to be what else needs to be done is it time yet to drop the immuno do we need to double it that sort of thing that we know now that for each of the five brain brain chemicals that needs to be enhanced to to normalize appetite we have two choices in almost every case now not just one and we know exactly not exactly because there’s always individual variation in response but we know much more about not only which one to choose but but about what kind of dosing to consider especially with children and with sensitive adults we’re also clear on the contraindications there are some people who shouldn’t take all of these amino acids even if their symptoms indicate that they need it and their reasons for it that have made very clear in the book so the most important part of this whole process and the most important part of the book really is placed at the beginning of the book and it’s also online it’s the five part craving type questionnaire so it identifies which the five brain functions is deficient there’s a one to ten severity score in addition to a check off for each of the symptoms and we have developed this tool since we started trying because we have done probably 20,000 trials where we gave an amino acid and saw exactly which symptoms were eliminated which deficiency symptoms were eliminated by that amino acid so this is a tremendous you know move forward and what we find is that we need to do these amino acid therapy we use a mini mini version to expedite the evaluations over time but we need to do it regularly for three to twelve months people need aminos more than 12 months but it’s unusual and they’re mostly people who have a family addiction and a genetic difficulty with with addiction a family history of addiction therefore a genetic problem that takes longer it’s responsive but it just takes longer so here we go these are the these are the craving types the the most common is the the craving to the craver who is low in our sunny antidepressant serotonin and the amino solution the Cure is either tryptophan or 5-htp and there are there’s guidance in the book about which one to try first given the nature of the specific person working with type 2 the second most common is the hypoglycemic Craver who whose blood sugar crashes and and tremendous grape makes result and here only one is needed only one amino acid is needed and that’s the the marvelous even miraculous glutamine you’ll read about its extraordinary impact on diabetes and and eliminating craving is only one of its the mechanisms by which it’s so helpful life-saving really oops I skipped one the third craving type is the cut is a Craver of comfort who is low in the endorphins that would otherwise be killing pain allowing them to enjoy you know an apple and in this case d phenylalanine or dl phenyl alanine there’s a typo here is what’s needed I I repeated this image because chocolate is such an extraordinary endorphin booster it’s drug like pleasurable nest is it’s quite phenomenal but it disappears under the impact of deep D phenylalanine or DL phenylalanine I promise you the fourth craving type is the stressed Craver not all stressed people eat over their stress or get any relief from food but there’s a goodly number at least 30% of over eaters are eating because of stress and so they’re deficient in their natural tranquilizer gaba the neurotransmitter that needs to be built up in this case we can use gaba which is also an amino acid directly or if that’s not successful we’ve found that the amino acid theanine will fill the bill and finally the fifth craving type is is the fatigue Creek River who is low in stimulating dopamine as well as norepinephrine and also adrenaline so these these cravers are looking for something with caffeine in it with chocolate in it which is also chocolate is also stimulating and these people are really benefited very very quickly by either tyrosine or phenylalanine one of these two amino acids has an almost instant pick-me-up effect that’s visible during the trial in minutes after they take an amino acid what the directions for working with children as well as adults is identified in the book and as I said earlier the steps for deciding assessing choosing an amino acid trialing it dosing it initially and then adjusting it using the amino acid therapy chart reduce and then terminating it and whatever is an appropriate time our experience is the younger the person the sooner they are able to terminate the amino acids but it’s all dependent the termination process is all dependent on the dietary improvement so in other words the amino acids alone are not going to create the bulwark against crazy thing without the increase in nutritious food protein in particular but because the amino acids are so effective at eliminating the cravings the the ability to change the diet is extraordinary and typically within 24 to 48 hours people are completely different having a completely different experience the market and you don’t have to worry about compliance because they are under control they have their willpower back they have their brain power back in terms of what an anti craving diet should be as you all know the conflict is never-ending should it be paleo should be ketogenic should it be vegan vegetarian should be low cal if so what kind of fasting a lot of low cal is is going under the the guise of cleansing now but it’s all starvation which we learned from the study last year on the biggest losers that low-calorie diet eating is really worst thing you can do for long-term weight loss and for craving loss in particular I just hope that this information gets out there because as you could see from the post op de fast dieters even on a 500 calorie diet which is less than the poor biggest losers were although it’s unclear how many calories the biggest losers were eating they really were going down very very low without formally pregnant you know admitting it really they were doing whatever they needed to do to win but the question is they’re you know of K we won’t go low-cal what does that mean how high can we go and still lose weight well that’s an individual matter but we’ve found that it’s almost always a problem under 2,000 calories for females and higher for males so as a non nutritionist I don’t have to be embroiled in the same way that those of you who are nutritionists do in looking at these various diets in their competing claims I’m looking at it now from a historical record we have been eating omnivorous Li for two million years that we know of now or more and until the 1970s on a diet that combined animal source foods with plant source foods we maintained an extraordinary level of health weight mood sleep and other essential human functions and till after the 1970s so I am recommending that we use that guide to determine what an individual’s successful diet should be and I’ve identified two kinds of traditional diets based on the historical record and one of them is the hunter-gatherers which is more the paleo which is the diet that really was roots and berries and animals and other plants but it predated the herder planters who came on about 12,000 years ago and began to grow food so that the plant-based portion of our diet was more reliable it wasn’t as dependent on the weather and and subject to famine and so forth so the animal protein continued but the plant component in started to include things like dried beans which had never been available before and and grains as well as dairy products so until the 70s we were eating a herder planter diet and our weight in our health did not appear to be so impaired we did start to develop some heart disease but that appears to be because our sugar consumption began to increase and we added the trans fats both of those things started in the thirties so since no other diets have a real track record of proven benefit I recommend that we use this historical view as our as a basis for creating diets that are individualized that really take into account the kind of person the genetic background of that person the dietary traditions that that person derived from and finally I’d like to just say a few words about the the great proponent of traditional diets and it’s a cautionary tale I do have a blog on it on my website that I recommend to use well Dan Buettner wrote these lovely books based on his travels in various parts of the world and identifying the the cultures and in the diets associated with those cultures that produced the oldest healthiest people his his his conclusions have been very influential in really quite lovely until he wrote a book more recently about how we could apply his conclusions and the cultures and the diets and lifestyles of the cultures that he’d identified to our own life and at this point he did something that is is a tremendous and I regard as dangerous temptation to us and that is to defer to experts who are advocating a whole new kind of eating style and this is particularly ironic given the Blue Zones commitment to traditional eating and life style but Dan Buettner has has made a decision to bring on experts who are advocating of a vegan a Pesce vegan daily fish use and otherwise essentially no protein very little fat a little or no fat and I think that he’s he’s someone who we need to look at in in choosing our own and in advocating for our clients the kind of dilemma that modern nutrition is facing so now you have an idea of the amino acid cure you you also have an idea of the recommendations that I’m making for the dietary cure that must go along with it and now I think that we’re close to ready for our for our questions and answers all right Thank You Julia we are indeed ready for that so um okay we ended on fats let’s go back to fats we started with fats addicted to fats that also recommend traditional fats such as butter lard coconut oil etc so clearly not all fats are created equal is the notion of being addicted to fats related to vegetable oils in processed junk I don’t think so not that I know of it it turns out that all fats are scrumptious and they stimulate endorphin activity but not astronomical endorphin activity just enough to give us that satisfaction it is true that saturated fats do tend to be more satisfying than vegetable oils but really the the brain doesn’t seem to be able to distinguish them and that’s one of the reasons that it’s so important for us to know you know intellectually what the difference between an ancient saturated fat and a modern highly inflammatory high omega-6 vegetable oil as in corn canola soy yes and what it does to us it’s terribly important that in that this cure in food the substitution of the traditional saturated fats and unsaturated you know olive oil is certainly fine avocado oil but that we eliminate as much as possible our use of these new and refined and in many cases damaged vegetable oils okay thank you welcome to talk a little bit about dieting did you say that women didn’t diet before the 70s I know I said that it wasn’t a household word everyone men women and children were not dieting before the 70s dieting actually became a kind of a recreational activity because of twiggy we decided well that would be fun let’s see if we can look like Twiggy it wasn’t because we had a serious weight problem going that way he gravitated towards Twiggy but because we couldn’t you know we really couldn’t sustain a starvation diet we began to have the rebound effects of those diets more and more and by the 70s we were developing weight problems not only from the recreational dieting that we’ve done in mostly in the 60s but also from the brand new foods and particularly the introduction of the high fructose syrups which includes agave syrup and fruit syrup and I make a very clear explanation of that that I think is terribly important for us all to understand okay so is it though is it actual word diet that you’re emphasizing here because clearly women restricted their calorie intake before the 70s for whatever reasons they did and it was a destructive activity in fact all of the studies on eating disorders at the time and remember was in the field at the time identified low-calorie diet as the originator you know the real trigger of eating disorders behavior do you think that it came more out of the the field of Dietetics that calorie is a calorie and kind of calorie and you lose a pound Oh certainly it did you know first it was recreational and then the dietitians and the closely associated you know PhD nutrition nutritionists like Ancel Keys got on board okay it’s a good distinction here because I you know when I look at my historical perspective I really see agricultural shift in the 50s of being a significant marker of people moving off the farms into the city’s smaller farms becoming smaller and smaller and less of it more processed foods being brought in and a big rise in associated unhealthy weight I mean I saw my family of farmers they were hearty full bodied people but I wouldn’t say fat until the 50s and then came the illnesses of diabetes etc no diabetes did not come that early in the 60s it was only 1% it really the diabetes explosion has occurred since the 1970s you may have had a family that was vulnerable to it and were more aware of it but that that’s one of the extraordinary things about this last 50 years the most extraordinary thing about it is that we’ve gone from 1 percent to 50 percent in terms of our diabetes percentage okay then I want you to expect a little bit more on your what you were terming voluntary starvation is it are you distinguishing that from reducing calories no I’m not I’m just basically I’m saying that if if we reduce calories we are embarking on an honest an experiment in starvation there’s just no other way we can look at it and there are negative sorry are negative repercussions mm-hmm and hasn’t it gotten even more severe with conditions of bulimia and anorexia that level of starvation well certainly our rates of bulimia anorexia have increased as we’ve continued to diet but as weight has gone completely out of control and people have seen that diets don’t work there they’re actually modifying dieting so it’s very popular now to do periodic cleanses just for a month people aren’t really trying to stay on a low-calorie diet forever and ever anymore it’s just impossible so the whole world of dieting is in a tremendous flux but still pretty it’s got a strong grasp about what do it what’s your impression with intermittent fasting well I’m not sure it’s again a form of starvation people are typically eating two instead of three meals what I’ve seen in the individual cases that I’ve you know been involved in is that people who eat very large to very large meals that are high in saturated fat and protein with lots of low calorie vegetables often do pretty well on it but we’ve seen many people completely unable to do it with blood sugar reactions that make it really impossible feeling weak and and tired and really unable to go on with it when you spoked about there’s a question about diet related illnesses and determination of death by diet related illnesses you know how this is determined is it based on category like obesity or or diabetes determine some things diet related well the diabetes is is the is the key really because for example the incidence of certain kinds of cancer are higher among diabetes and among diabetics so one of the ways they look at it is in looking at you know what gives rise to diabetes there very convincing large populations that is showing that the the amount of sugar consumed is really the definitive issue and so we know that you know the amount of sugar is the diet related factor with diabetes and we do know that high fructose sugars are much more destructive and much more diabetes producing an exacerbating than sucrose which helps explain why the rate of diabetes was so much lower in the past yeah alright excellent point hmm with I mean why I said let’s go into you know acids and working with them can they be tested via lab work yes they can and and I’ve got a section in the testing tools portion at the end of the book for people to look at the resources there I don’t know why it’s not done more often because we can test for amino acid levels in in plasma we can test for neurotransmitter levels in plasma that’s very easy you can do that at almost any lab big lab but we can also test at least for two of the most common neurotransmitters that are at stake here serotonin and dopamine we can test for their levels very very accurately using blood platelet testing and I give a source an easy and fairly recently really reasonably priced source in the book all of these kinds of testing are compared against what’s considered the gold standard which is cerebrospinal testing which was what you know people were paid to undergo this procedure so that we could actually get into the nervous system and test you know how many of these neurotransmitters were actually available to us and the the the one form of testing that shows the least correspondence to this gold standard is urine testing so that is a form of amino acid testing that I would strongly recommend that people not take terribly seriously we have seen hundreds of test results that do not conform to symptoms and do not conform to the blood testing and what do you think that sorry that the blood testing would it’s be it seem so variable an amino acid in the body versus protein I mean it’s breaking down you know if a blood test was taken within an hour of eating versus five hours of eating a protein don’t you think the results would be quite varied well it there are reference ranges attached to the amount of time after a meal the the blood testing is done so that that helps a lot and and as we have found you know some of these deficiencies are so deep that they just do show up we don’t sure we don’t actually do very much blood testing because we have found that the the research using the the cerebrospinal fluid and the blood platelet testing that was done in the 80s really revealed what symptoms of deficiency were and that’s their great value to us is that early research so now we know what what happen someone whose serotonin division how do they feel and when we give a serotonin deficient person for example who is depressed feeling negative and pessimistic and irritable having trouble sleeping when he give someone like that the supplement of tryptophan or 5-hydroxytryptophan we see those specific symptoms go away now they may still be tired but fatigue isn’t a symptom of serotonin deficiency so we’ve been able to verify the accuracy of that early research using the blood testing for to identify deficiencies we’ve been able to verify it with you know these 20,000 trials we’ve done giving people who seem to have a serotonin deficiency or an endorphin deficiency the specific nutrient associated with it that will correct that situation and verified will indeed those symptoms that were originally identified are we’re very accurate so now we can use the symptom questionnaire instead of having to go and duplicate the blood testing but it’s nice to have fairly reliable blood testing available to us if we need it for example if we have a pregnant woman and as we as we have had with very severe symptoms does not want to pass on the symptoms to the infant would like to use the immuno as it precursors but there’s some concern we will verify that there really is deficiency and then work with the ob/gyn to to provide her with safe safe levels often times with pregnant women however we will give them a multi amino that includes tryptophan because that is very much like the multivitamin mineral that that Obi’s like pregnant women to take it’s basically a multi amino and they love it and and it works pretty well it’s not as complete a solution but it’s very good all right thank you though there was a follow-up question of a questionnaire versus lab work and you just handled that really well we couldn’t you have you have fantastic questionnaires that have been used from mood queer mood here and now in cravings cure so that’s where I rely and it’s um it’s affordable for people also and I find very accurate well that’s a good point you know because many people talk about you know well the expense but really there’s very little expense you know if the craving cure becomes an international bestseller we will have to worry about our amino acid supplies but as it stands we have plenty of amino acids very reasonably priced available you know in every health venue online even in supermarkets and and drugstores that’s right may it stay that way amen no I just haven’t fear they Julia when when you first started seeing results using amino acids in your clinic just in your early years just how giddy you must have been you know I mean speaking of being a pioneer I mean you are championing this to a large degree through the work that you’re doing and the books that you’re writing in the workshops that you offer in the trainings and so it’s just it’s really amazing to me to be able to see something this entrenched and chronic turned around so simply well I’m glad that you mentioned the joy of it because it’s one of the things that I definitely want us to get across to the clinicians who are on board here tonight is this is fun and when you have somebody come in who’s you know impatient irritable demoralized you know a typical person who comes in get some recommendations for diet and never comes back but you can right then and there give them a very quick assessment take a look at contraindications in minutes possible contraindications and then actually give them samples of these amino acid supplements and watch with them they’re aware of it sometimes they’ll even point to a part of their brain and say I can feel something changing over here and and you know when you end up laughing with somebody who’s crying with you to begin with you know in their despair it’s it definitely keeps you going it’s definitely kept me going yeah I bet we need things to keep us going and you know just the thought of of having lost so much of the pleasure of eating I mean it’s so sad to lose that and so I think that’s one of the most valuable parts of this work is that people can experience the pleasure of eating again when they make some common changes alright I I need to close us here so I and I just want to thank you for Julia for bringing this latest research and clinical findings to us and and really for persevering and pioneering this work it’s just I wanna thank you for all you do for this presentation – well thank you and helping me to take it a step further Paula you bet I’ve got a few closing comments everybody so if you just bear with me I want to remind you that the webinars recorded it’s going to be 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