That question makes people uncomfortable because most people have never stopped long enough to examine the difference between true hunger and dependency.

When many people attempt fasting, what they experience in the beginning is not necessarily starvation. It is withdrawal!

Irritability

Headaches

Brain fog

Mood swings

Cravings

Obsessive thoughts about food

These reactions are often treated as proof that the body “needs” food immediately. But most of the time, they are signs that the body and brain...

If I could lay out the history of human nutrition on a football field, it would change how you see food forever.

From one end zone to the other represents roughly 2 to 2.5 million years of human existence. For 99.9 yards, humans ate what the Earth provided: meat, fish, eggs, fruits, roots, and wild plants. There were no labels, no packaging, no marketing campaigns. And just as important, there were gaps. Periods where food wasn’t available. Times when humans didn’t eat. Fasting wasn’t a...

Most people think they eat because they’re hungry. But what if that’s not true? What if what you’re calling hunger is actually control? Are you in control, or is hunger controlling you? That question is uncomfortable, but it matters. Because if you never question it, you will continue to respond the same way you always have, automatically, without ever realizing it.

Most people have trained their bodies to expect food at specific times. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks in between. Not because...