@joshuaramirez9088

3 months ago

Take my thoughts with a grain of salt, even people who study things don't truly "know" all they've spent years researching. As far as I'm aware, I think cravings ARE your body saying "what it needs", except somewhere between our body saying we need something and our brain having a capacity to know what it is, the signal is really easy to misinterpret. The word "craving" also isn't very specific as to defining the cause of said desire for any given thing.
Some food "cravings" are your body saying you haven't eaten enough and your need more caloric sustenance, and sometimes it'll be interpreted as "i REALLY want sweets" when sure that's kinda correct but it misses the mark on what would probably be better in the long term. Sometimes people crave meat or even dirt, when it just so happens they have an iron deficiency. I think sometimes I "crave" processed food because I have adhd and my dopamine levels are low and my mental health is struggling, and so getting a hit of dopamine sounds doubly like a good idea even though I'll be more hungry and feel less good on multiple levels if I eat that stuff. And sometimes eating it isn't the worst decision to make. But like most feelings, they're a messenger sent by some other thing, and if you keep getting a strange or concerning message, that might mean some other bigger thing is happening that needs more attention or thought than it's got. And sometimes, like with ptsd, your body keeps sending a message of warning when it thinsk something is happening that isn't.

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