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kidneys were shutting down, I had stones, and I was constantly in pain. My doctor told me if I didn’t change my diet, I would need dialysis in a few years. When I turned down the medication request the nurse gave me over the phone, the doctor called me back and explained the risks to my health and how serious a matter it was. I got off the phone, and I just cried.
    â€œI read Eat to Live and decided to change. I had been ignorant and reckless with my health.” Eight weeks later, when Dr. Paulson went back for a checkup, his physician hugged him and said he never saw anyone reverse so many health problems just from diet and exercise.
    After six months of following my advice, Dr. Paulson lost eighty pounds, his fasting blood glucose level lowered to 90, his HbA1C level went to 6.5, and his blood pressure reduced to 120/70. His only medication at the six-month marker was metformin 1,000 milligrams twice daily. *
    Dr. Paulson’s wife, Jillian, also lost thirty pounds. She told us Glen “is doing so much better. He has been a good example for his patients, and they are changing their diets as well. When they see what happened to Glen, they all want to lose weight and get off their medications too because of his good example. This is the best lifestyle change we have ever made, and we 100 percent promote this plan. We now teach a health class on this once a month, and it has been phenomenal. Thanks for everything.”
    A high-micronutrient diet does not just improve health for your body, but it also decreases food cravings and sensations leading to overeating behavior. Individuals adopting a diet style rich in micronutrients report a change in the perception of hunger signals. The sensations commonly considered hunger, and even reported in medical textbooks as such, appear to dissipate for the majority of people, and a new sensation that I label true or throat hunger arises instead.
    A diet too low in micronutrients leads to heightened oxidative stress. Oxidative stress means inflammation in the cells due to excessive free radical activity. It is accompanied by a buildup of toxic metabolites that can create physical symptoms of withdrawal when digestion ceases in between meals. Besides the toxins we consume from food, cells produce their own metabolic wastes that need to be removed from cells and tissues.
    When our diets are low in phytochemicals and other micronutrients, we build up intracellular waste products. It is well accepted in scientific literature that toxins such as free radicals, AGEs, lipofusion, and lipid A2E build up in tissues when people’s diets are low in micronutrients and phytochemicals, and that these substances contribute to disease. 1
    It has already been noted that overweight individuals build up more inflammatory markers and oxidative stress when fed a low-nutrient meal compared to normal-weight individuals. 2 Because of this, people prone to obesity experience more withdrawal symptoms that direct them to the overconsumption of calories. These are the sources of the toxic hunger cravings that often lead to binging and other gut-busting behavior. It is a vicious cycle promoting the problem and preventing its resolution. Those with healthier diets do not build up such high levels of inflammatory markers and as a result do not experience intense withdrawal hunger symptoms. 3
    Phytonutrients are required for the body to properly detoxify metabolic waste products—they enable cellular detoxification. When we don’t eat sufficient phytochemical-rich-vegetation and instead consume low-nutrient food and excess animal proteins (creating excess nitrogenous wastes) we often exacerbate the buildup of metabolic waste products in our bodies. 4 These wastes are just like drug toxins.
    The withdrawal symptoms, conventionally called hunger, develop from inadequate or poor nutrition. I call these withdrawal symptoms toxic hunger. It is important for us to understand and differentiate toxic