Stop the Addiction Impulse in 60 Seconds (Here’s How) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Why you can't stop addictions. If you
2. 0:03have an addiction, whether it's smoking,
3. 0:05alcohol, porn addiction, sugar, social
4. 0:08media, gambling, whatever, and you try
5. 0:11to fight it, or you try to resist it,
6. 0:14that addiction will become 10 times
7. 0:17stronger. And this is what a lot of
8. 0:18people don't realize. An addiction is
9. 0:21not low willpower. It's not a lack of
10. 0:24discipline at all. It's not that the
11. 0:26person's crazy or weak or any of that.
12. 0:29I'm going to show you exactly what an
13. 0:30addiction is in the body. Then I'm going
14. 0:33to show you a technique to weaken this
15. 0:36addiction within a minute and put you
16. 0:39back in the driver's seat. Everything is
17. 0:40based on survival. If you're thirsty,
18. 0:44the body will go after water.
19. 0:46When you're hungry, your body will go
20. 0:49after food. With addictions, it's a
21. 0:51little different. You drink some
22. 0:53alcohol,
23. 0:54you feel less stressed, you feel better,
24. 0:57you'll feel happier. What happens next
25. 0:59is this chemical dopamine is going to
26. 1:01tag alcohol as something that increases
27. 1:05survival. Let's say you took a drug and
28. 1:07you felt high and you felt less
29. 1:09stressed, or you felt more energetic,
30. 1:12this chemical is going to tag that as
31. 1:15something to help you survive. And if we
32. 1:16take gambling, you're increasing your
33. 1:19odds to get more resources with less
34. 1:22effort, right? People are scrolling all
35. 1:25these potential mates to pick from in a
36. 1:28very short period of time, and it's an
37. 1:30abundance because pornography mimics
38. 1:33reproduction, which is a internal
39. 1:36survival drive. Let's take
40. 1:38ultra-processed foods, right? You eat a
41. 1:40donut, you get pleasure immediately from
42. 1:42that. This chemical will tag it as
43. 1:45survival. So, as you repeat it, it
44. 1:47becomes stronger and stronger and
45. 1:49stronger
46. 1:50in two different chemicals.
47. 1:53This chemical right here, it's the gas
48. 1:55pedal that gets you activated, and then
49. 1:57dopamine is kind of like the fine-tuner.
50. 2:00It tunes in to specifically what is
51. 2:03considered important, whether it's
52. 2:05alcohol, drug, water, food, etc.
53. 2:08Dopamine does not have anything to do
54. 2:10with giving you pleasure. It's another
55. 2:12chemical called opioids that gives you
56. 2:14the pleasure, at least initially.
57. 2:17But if you keep doing it,
58. 2:20the pleasure goes away.
59. 2:21Okay? And all you get now is relief. But
60. 2:25our brains have not differentiated
61. 2:27cocaine from comfort, alcohol from
62. 2:31stress relief. And then the more you do
63. 2:33it, the more these chemicals go higher
64. 2:35and higher and higher. And then we get
65. 2:38massive glutamate spikes. When this
66. 2:40chemical goes this high, you start
67. 2:43having abnormal body sensations that are
68. 2:46no longer just an urge towards
69. 2:48something, it's basically agitation, you
70. 2:52feel pressure in your body, you go from
71. 2:55I want it to I need it or I have to have
72. 2:58it. Now, we have this compulsion or this
73. 3:01obsession with certain things. And of
74. 3:04course, if you ignore it, you fight it,
75. 3:06you resist it, guess what happens? Your
76. 3:09body turns up the dial, the flight or
77. 3:11fight system kicks in there, you have
78. 3:14more cortisol, more stress, more body
79. 3:17sensation, like your chest gets tight,
80. 3:20or you have more anxiety, more pressure
81. 3:22to get you to give in. And so
82. 3:24eventually, addictions have nothing to
83. 3:26do with pleasure, it's all to do with
84. 3:29relieving the withdrawals. So now let's
85. 3:32show you what you can do about this. How
86. 3:34can we quickly reduce the body urge or
87. 3:38sensation that is driving you towards
88. 3:40this thing? So let's just say for
89. 3:41example, you are addicted to alcohol,
90. 3:44right? And you start getting these body
91. 3:46urges or compulsions to go after that
92. 3:49thing. What can you do
93. 3:52to reduce that urge?
94. 3:55First thing you have to realize is that
95. 3:57urge is coming from either too much
96. 4:01glutamate
97. 4:03or dopamine. It's coming up, but it will
98. 4:06come down. The question is, how do we
99. 4:09bring it down? The first thing you're
100. 4:11going to do, number one, is you're going
101. 4:12to rate on a scale from 0 to 10 the
102. 4:16intensity of this compulsion or impulse.
103. 4:20Number two,
104. 4:22you're going to locate it or point to
105. 4:24where it is in your body.
106. 4:26Is it coming from your chest, or your
107. 4:28head, or another part of your body?
108. 4:31You're locating where this sensation is,
109. 4:36because it is a body sensation, okay?
110. 4:40Number three,
111. 4:41you're going to describe it
112. 4:43to yourself.
113. 4:44Is it pressure? Is it a pulling feeling?
114. 4:48Is it a tight chest? Is it like anxiety
115. 4:51or a restlessness in your muscles?
116. 4:54Whatever it is, just describe it. And
117. 4:58then, number four,
118. 5:00you're going to go back to number one.
119. 5:02Re-rate
120. 5:04that sensation, okay, from 0 to 10.
121. 5:07You're going to notice the intensity is
122. 5:09going to be significantly lower. And
123. 5:12then you're going to go to number two.
124. 5:13Locate it and point to it. Where is it
125. 5:15now? Did it shift? Did it move? Is it in
126. 5:18the same location? And then number
127. 5:20three, describe it. Did it change in
128. 5:22character? And then number four, go back
129. 5:24to number one. Re-rate it. What you're
130. 5:26actually doing is you're taking
131. 5:28something that's very vague and kind of
132. 5:31all over your body, and you're making it
133. 5:34very specific. You're differentiating
134. 5:37you from it. You're putting it over
135. 5:41here, okay, away from you. So you can
136. 5:43kind of see it, and you can identify it,
137. 5:46and you can also realize it's not you,
138. 5:49it's this other thing. And what's really
139. 5:51magical about this is the more you
140. 5:53define it and you look at it, and you
141. 5:56put it over there, the less it's going
142. 5:59to affect you, the less intense it's
143. 6:01going to be. And a lot of times these
144. 6:03sensations can go away in under a
145. 6:05minute. Just follow step 1 2 3 4 and
146. 6:09repeat until that sensation is gone.
147. 6:13Remember, it's on a wave and you're just
148. 6:15speeding the thing up to bring it down
149. 6:17to zero intensity. Go ahead and do this
150. 6:21and then comment down below and then
151. 6:23read all of the success stories. This
152. 6:25really works. It's an amazing technique.
153. 6:28Is it going to cure you? No, this is
154. 6:30only temporary. It's a quick technique
155. 6:33just to allow you to cope with it. Next
156. 6:36thing, NAC, it stands for
157. 6:38N-acetylcysteine.
158. 6:40This is a natural remedy that they use
159. 6:43for a lot of things, Tylenol poisoning,
160. 6:46to break up thick mucus,
161. 6:48but it also greatly helps reduce these
162. 6:53glutamate spikes that I talked about.
163. 6:56Glutamate is an excitotoxin for the
164. 6:58brain. NAC helps you regulate the
165. 7:03spikes, so it has more of a normal
166. 7:06amount. Some people take 600 mg if they
167. 7:10have maybe a minor problem, 1200 mg, but
168. 7:14if they really have this major
169. 7:17addiction, they might take 2400
170. 7:20mg per day. Because high glutamate is
171. 7:23causing things to be urgent, having
172. 7:26compulsions, and more pressure. In the
173. 7:29brain, you have the gas pedal, which is
174. 7:31glutamate, and then you have the brakes.
175. 7:34What are the brakes? GABA. What's a good
176. 7:36way to increase GABA? Glycine, which I
177. 7:39like to combine it with magnesium as
178. 7:41magnesium glycinate because you get the
179. 7:44glycinate which actually increase the
180. 7:46GABA, the brakes, plus you have
181. 7:48magnesium that actually can help reduce
182. 7:51cortisol
183. 7:52and the fight or flight mechanism.
184. 7:55Because in addictions, when you resist,
185. 7:57the body starts
186. 7:58massively increasing stress hormones to
187. 8:01force you to do certain things.
188. 8:02Magnesium glycinate is another antidote
189. 8:05for this impulse. As a side note, if
190. 8:09you're a smoker, okay, and you're
191. 8:11addicted to nicotine, it's a little
192. 8:13different. Nicotine is one of those
193. 8:15really strong addictive things in your
194. 8:18body. And then if you smoke a pack a
195. 8:19day, you're talking hundreds of
196. 8:22trainings, okay, for that dopamine. So,
197. 8:25if you're a smoker and you're trying to
198. 8:26get rid of that,
199. 8:28you're going to have to add a couple
200. 8:30additional things to help you. More
201. 8:32vitamin B1 and also potassium. Both of
202. 8:36these can greatly help in the
203. 8:39biochemical pathways for smokers. And
204. 8:42then the other thing about a smoker is
205. 8:44that
206. 8:45the withdrawals can last 1 to 2 weeks
207. 8:48hardcore. So, as long as you can go into
208. 8:51this and hang in there for 2 weeks, it's
209. 8:54going to get a lot easier. And you have
210. 8:56to retrain your body. And that brings up
211. 9:00another very, very important thing. And
212. 9:03this is your environment. Changing the
213. 9:06people that you hang out with if they're
214. 9:08part of the trigger. Let's just take
215. 9:11ultra-processed foods and even sugar.
216. 9:13And you go home and you have these
217. 9:15little bowls of candy all around you or
218. 9:18you have junk food in your refrigerator,
219. 9:19your pantry. You have to change your
220. 9:22environment so it's not in your face.
221. 9:24For bad habits, you have to add barriers
222. 9:28to get them. Now, obviously, if you're a
223. 9:30smoker, you would absolutely, positively
224. 9:33not have any cigarettes around the
225. 9:36house. Maybe you'd want to have
226. 9:38substitute things like toothpicks in
227. 9:41your mouth. And with pornography, you'd
228. 9:44obviously want to put filters on your
229. 9:46cell phone, and you'd want to not bring
230. 9:48your cell phone in your bedroom. If you
231. 9:50have a very strong addiction to alcohol
232. 9:54or drugs,
233. 9:55one of the best rehab programs out there
234. 9:59is called Narconon. And if you've never
235. 10:01heard about it, you should check it out.
236. 10:03I put a link down below. Narconon is not
237. 10:05about giving you a drug to get off a
238. 10:07drug. It's about putting you in a
239. 10:09different environment, safe environment,
240. 10:11so these things don't trigger you
241. 10:12anymore. And also they emphasize
242. 10:14nutrition to plug the holes in some of
243. 10:17these deficiencies. A lot of addictions
244. 10:19start when there's already deficiencies
245. 10:23of exercise,
246. 10:24sleep, blood sugar issues.
247. 10:27It makes the person more vulnerable to
248. 10:30developing an addiction. If your body is
249. 10:32agitated, if your body has an impulse
250. 10:35towards something,
251. 10:36and you start exercising, you are going
252. 10:38to naturally add movement to reduce that
253. 10:42body sensation. Because you actually get
254. 10:44the relief from exercise. So this is a
255. 10:46really good substitute for addictions.
256. 10:50Having enough sleep is probably one of
257. 10:53the best ways to restore those two brain
258. 10:56chemicals, glutamate and dopamine,
259. 10:59because they're dysfunctional. And then
260. 11:01especially to get your blood sugar
261. 11:03balanced out by not eating carbohydrates
262. 11:06and by not snacking, going on a low-carb
263. 11:09healthy diet with high-quality animal
264. 11:11protein. Super important because if your
265. 11:14blood sugar is off, you're going to have
266. 11:16more problems with dopamine. It's almost
267. 11:18impossible to fix it on top of a blood
268. 11:21sugar issue.
269. 11:22One last thing, oxytocin. Oxytocin is a
270. 11:27bonding hormone. It's a social hormone.
271. 11:30When someone has an addiction, if they
272. 11:32don't get whatever their body urges
273. 11:34telling them to get, that puts your body
274. 11:36in danger.
275. 11:37Well, oxytocin is the safety hormone
276. 11:40that you can actually activate to help
277. 11:44substitute these messages, okay?
278. 11:47There's several ways to get oxytocin.
279. 11:50Hugs, hugging people, pets, bonding with
280. 11:54other people, friendships and things
281. 11:56like that, spending more time with your
282. 11:57family, L. reuteri, okay? I did a whole
283. 12:01video on this. This is a microbe
284. 12:03[clears throat]
285. 12:03that you can actually turn into a yogurt
286. 12:06that has super high amounts. When I
287. 12:09started taking this, within probably a
288. 12:11few days, my wife said, "What has gotten
289. 12:13into you?" I said, "What do you mean?"
290. 12:14She "You want to like hug me several
291. 12:16times a day. You never want to hug me."
292. 12:18I said,
293. 12:19"It must be the yogurt." She goes, "Keep
294. 12:21eating the yogurt." And also just having
295. 12:23a purpose can actually increase
296. 12:24oxytocin.
297. 12:26But, my viewpoint, I think everyone has
298. 12:30the same purpose.
299. 12:32And that is to help someone or
300. 12:34something. That's at the foundation of
301. 12:36most people's purposes. And it just so
302. 12:38happens that when you help, you can also
303. 12:41increase oxytocin. Now, since this is
304. 12:44the last thing I'm talking about, if you
305. 12:46have not seen this video I did on L.
306. 12:48reuteri, it's fascinating.
307. 12:50You'll love it. And I put it up right
308. 12:52here. Check it out.