It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

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flavors without providing the nutrition
that nature intended. These are foods-
with-no-brakes, promoting
overconsumption and the inability to
control your cravings, habits, and
behaviors.
2 . These foods fail our second Good Food
standard: a healthy hormonal
response. These foods disrupt your
normal hormonal balance, promoting
leptin resistance, insulin resistance (and
all of the negative downstream effects
that follow), disrupting glucagon’s
energy-access function, and elevating
cortisol levels.
3 . These foods fail our third Good Food
standard: support a healthy gut. These
foods directly promote intestinal
permeability, leading to a less-than-
intact barrier that lets foreign substances
get inside the body (where they do not
belong). Foods that fail our third Good

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