You like sugar.
You like bread. You like pizza. You like that late-night snack that you know you shouldn't have.
But here's a question nobody asks: Who decided you like those things?
Because it wasn't you.
Those cravings, those "likes," they're coming from somewhere. And that somewhere is the 70 trillion microbes living inside your gut.
The bad ones. The obesogenic ones. The ones that complete their life cycle in soil and need you to die to get there.
They're the ones telling you what you like.
When you crave sugar, that's not your body asking for fuel. That's bacteria sending chemical signals to your brain, demanding you feed them. And when you give in, even a little, you just dropped a football field's worth of food for organisms that want to destroy you.
One lick of cookie dough ice cream. One bite of cake. You think it's small because you're measuring it against your body.
But those microbes are microscopic. That tiny taste? It's a feast. They gorge. They reproduce. And hours later, the cravings come back stronger.
This is why willpower doesn't work.
You're not fighting yourself. You're fighting an infection.
I had a client who couldn't understand why the cravings never stopped. Up and down. Up and down. Years of it. She thought she was weak. She thought she lacked discipline.
She wasn't weak. She was colonized.
Here's what changes everything.
When you starve those bad microbes and replace them with good ones, something remarkable happens. Your taste literally changes.
The chronic inflammation from visceral fat, from heart fat, from muscle fat, it blunts your taste receptors. Unhealthy people can't taste real food properly. A grass-fed steak tastes boring to them. Fermented vegetables taste disgusting.
But as you get healthier, your receptors wake up.
I eat the same meal almost every day. Meat and fermented foods. And I'm telling you, it feels like the greatest meal I've ever had. Every single time. Because my taste receptors are functioning at a level they never did before.
The pleasure you're chasing in junk food? It's fake.
It's manufactured in a lab to hijack your senses. And it's working with the bad microbes inside you to keep you addicted.
Real pleasure, sustained pleasure, comes from a body that's actually healthy. Art looks more beautiful. Music hits deeper. Food tastes better. Even relationships feel richer.
I talked to an 85-year-old man worth $700 million. His health was so bad he couldn't even grasp that life could feel good again. He'd lost the capacity to believe it. That's what disease does. It robs you of the ability to even imagine something better.
Nature favors the organism that analyzes best.
That means seeing through the lie. Just because you like something doesn't mean it's good for you. Your senses have been hijacked. Your cravings have been weaponized against you.
Time to take them back.
That's why I built the Ultimate Start.
You get your MRI first. Simple cash-pay scan, no contrast needed. We'll show you how to order one in your state.
Then, for $990, my team reads it. A physician analyzes your abdomen and heart for visceral fat. You see exactly what's inside you.
You also get my 48 strategies, two months of coaching, and 50% off Alpha Maker, where I go live twice a week and take questions.
Stop letting harmful microbes decide what you like.
Start liking what's actually good for you.
—Dr. Sean
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