112: Heal Your Body, Heal Your Desire: How Foods Shape Your Recovery

When I first started my journey to overcome porn addiction, I thought it was all about willpower, accountability, and prayer. But what I didn’t realize was that what I was putting into my body was fueling my cravings, my anxiety, and even my relapses.

In this episode, I open up about the surprising connection between nutrition and porn addiction recovery—how the foods you eat shape your mood, your energy, your mental clarity, and even your desire. If you’ve ever wondered why cravings hit harder some days than others, or why relapse feels almost impossible to resist after certain meals, this conversation will change the way you look at recovery.

We’ll explore the gut–brain connection, the role of the microbiome in producing dopamine and serotonin, and why blood sugar spikes can send you straight into the arms of porn cravings. I share my personal story of how cutting out processed sugar, dairy, and grains dramatically reduced my urges and stabilized my mental health. And I’ll walk you through practical ways to start building a diet that supports—not sabotages—your recovery.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why the body and mind are inseparable in true recovery.
• How the gut microbiome and vagus nerve directly influence cravings, anxiety, and focus.
• The hidden impact of sugar, dairy, and grains on your dopamine system.
• How stabilizing your blood sugar can lower anxiety and porn cravings.
• Why inflammation makes relapse more likely—and how to fight it.
• The simple, step-by-step changes that helped me stay sober from porn for over 10 years.

Brother, this isn’t about restriction or perfection. It’s about giving yourself the strength, clarity, and stability you need to win the battle every day. When you heal your body, you give yourself the best chance to heal your desire—and to build a life of freedom, focus, and purpose.

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Jake Kastleman (00:10.702)
Physical nutrition and porn addiction. Sound unrelated? Most of us have not been taught to make a connection between the two.

We've taught the direct impact our diet has on our emotions, how our neurology intimately interacts with the digestive tract. Your body has a gut-brain connection and this plays a crucial role in how you think. And as far as porn addiction, what you eat impacts the frequency and intensity of your porn cravings. And if this sounds odd, I get that. How could something like this be true?

When I was in my 20s, I began to notice a correlation between what I ate and how often I relapsed. This was very confusing for me. I knew that nutrition played a role in my energy levels, but why would it impact my desire for sex? This opened up a new world and I began to study the science of nutritional psychology and metabolic psychiatry fields that showed me how I could recover much easier simply by eating differently.

You may believe that the mind and body are separate. That's the way that I was taught. But an increasing amount of research and curious clinicians have proven otherwise. Mind and body are not so separate. In many circles, they are now referred to as one, using the phrase body, mind. Today, I want to share a bit about my journey and the intimate link between my diet and my mental health.

and all this has played a critical role in becoming sober from porn for over 10 years. Much of what I say today may challenge long held beliefs, but I urge you to open your mind and your heart because what you learn could change your recovery forever. And I hope that it does. Before we dive in, a reminder to follow this podcast, hit the notification bell and shoot me a rating. It helps other men who need help.

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to find this podcast. All right, let's go.

Jake Kastleman (02:34.55)
So diving in today, just another reminder in just a few weeks, really about a little over a week, I guess it is now, I'm going to start to promote the Porn Resilient Summit that is through the good and the free. My friend, Taylor Chambers, is going to be hosting that event. Me and about 12 other experts are going to be promoting our products and our services that we're actually giving away with his bundle. And we're going to be talking about it in the summit for free.

Check into that more information on that soon, but I just want to mention that once again that is coming up I will be talking about the rail method a method I've been working on for the last year and a half And it is a powerful way to work through cravings and painful motion It's made a great difference for my clients and I am now releasing it to the public It will be a course on my website and then it will also be promoted through this event for for purchase with the bundle

It is something that I will be, we will be giving in there. There will be a coupon code for it for those who actually attend that live online summit. So looking forward to that. Today I really wanted to get personal. I wanted to tell something about my story. You know, on the podcast, I give a lot of information, a lot of learning, and I try to share from my life as well and try to be real about, you know, my journey and being able to relate to you and giving as much, as much

value as I can to help you in your recovery. But today, this is a very personal matter for me. And that's about nutrition and its impact on psychology, on mental health, and on emotion. And so what I share today, I sincerely hope it blesses you and it blesses your family by effect because this can impact the way that you show up in all areas of your life.

and it can impact your recovery in profound ways that I never imagined when I was younger before I knew everything I'm going to share with you today. So as far back as I can remember into my childhood, like as far back as my memory goes, I felt extremely anxious. I felt uptight. I felt rigid. I felt perfectionistic. I had social anxiety, depression, troubles focusing. I couldn't focus on things like I wanted. I was always getting side.

Jake Kastleman (05:00.299)
side-questing and procrastinating. I've often felt confused. My memory wasn't great. And this was just my life. Like I say all that now, because I can recognize the difference in my life now versus back then. But then it was just how I felt. I just thought it was life. I thought it was how everybody felt all the time. I really didn't know a difference. And when I was four years old,

You know, I'm going to tie in how all that really plays in with what I ate and how that impacted it. There were a lot of other factors too, but when I was four years old, I ate microwaved pretzels, I ate cereal, I ate cheesy chips. I ate a lot of the same things that a lot of kids eat. I did eat some veggies. My family wasn't the unhealthiest out there, that's for sure. And as I grew older, we became much, much healthier. I began to eat healthier as I grew older.

Nothing exceptional in my younger years, but pretty good, especially in comparison to how some of us can kind of grow up. And this is, I'm going to just skip a giant gap here. But when I was 18 years old, I was in an intro to psychology class and we had a unit on abnormal psychology and we talked about social anxiety. And I remember at 18,

discovering the something like 12 symptoms of social anxiety. And I remember in reviewing those, feeling this absolutely crazy realization that I had social anxiety disorder. Because every single one of those symptoms were me. I checked each box, I was like me, me, me, me, me. And once I realized I had social anxiety, I had a reaction.

Some people wouldn't perhaps, which is how can I get better from this? For a lot of people, they get diagnosed with a disorder and this was a self-diagnosis, right? But they get diagnosed with something and then they think, wow, this is going to be my life now and this is where I'm at. It gave me incredible understanding for myself and this really amazing

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blessing that I didn't have to actually live this way forever. I had this compassion and understanding, but I also thought, well, if this is something that I have and something that I deal with, maybe this can shift.

And this attitude was very much due to the family that I grew up in. I was blessed to have a father, Mark Castleman, who was going around the world talking to people about pornography addiction. He was talking about brain science and the neuroscience of addiction. And so by effect, I grew up in a home where we kind of shared this hope of neuroplasticity and the fact that we could change and we could advance.

And so once I realized that I had social anxiety, one of the things that I explored was my diet. I had heard some things about how diet could impact mood, and I owe that most of all to my mother, very much so, and my father. My mom really made that an emphasis, you know, to eat healthy so we could feel good and so we could take good care of our bodies.

But what I didn't know and what we couldn't know back then, because there just wasn't information adequately on it, is how profound this connection was between gut and brain. And once I started to learn about this, and this was very much an exploration and discovery kind of process for me, and making shifts to my diet here and there, and kind of seeing how I would feel,

over that the next 24 hours or the next few days. And for me, I was very sensitive to that. you know, through exercise and experimenting with my nutrition, I feel like I kind of gained this sense of like, here's what's good for my body, here's what's not good for my body. And that, a lot of that unfortunately became pretty extreme. And I got into OCD types of behaviors with nutrition and exercise. I became very obsessive.

Jake Kastleman (09:30.373)
with it and so I am prone to that so I need to watch that. But I also have this kind of sensitivity to how my body feels. So it's a great strength but it can also be an absolute terror if I allow it to get out of hand or overemphasize it. So this world that opened up to me as I began exploring this, I started to learn about the science and the neuroscience, the biology of how this worked. And again,

experiencing it firsthand myself making diet changes and then verifying it with the science later as more and more was discovered. So things opened up and were discovered about the gut microbiome. And this was something I started to find out, wow, we actually have research on this. The gut microbiome, in other words, the microorganisms, the bacteria, the fungi, protozoa,

other species, microorganisms that live inside your gut. In other words, your intestines and other organs. And they actually are heavily involved, these microorganisms, if you haven't heard about them, they are heavily involved in the production of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine. They actually take things like tyrosine and B vitamins.

and they ferment these as well as multiple other factors that come into play. These little bacteria ferment these and turn them into dopamine. They also take tryptophan and B vitamins and these probiotic bacteria actually form them into serotonin. And I'm really simplifying that process there. That was like a overview of something that's much bigger.

So, dopamine, serotonin, these are produced there. According to some research, about 90 % of the serotonin that we have in our bodies, and serotonin is heavily involved with our mood and things like depression or anxiety. Dopamine is obviously heavily involved. We talk about that a lot on the podcast and it's spoken about all the time now. These are heavily involved with disorders like anxiety, depression, ADHD.

Jake Kastleman (11:49.349)
And hormones, right, as a whole are produced within the gut microbiome. So our guts actually produce these chemicals that then impact our brain. And our vagus nerve, which is this incredible nerve that's throughout our nervous system, obviously, connects from our gut to our brain. And chemicals from gut bacteria travel up through the vagus nerve and into our brain.

and chemicals travel from our brain into our gut. This is why we can feel something in our gut and it impacts how we feel in our brain. And if you actually think about this amazing connection, think about something like feeling tired, right? We often, we disconnect mind from body. say that they're not one. Well, think about this. A few examples. When I'm tired, so my physical body is drained, how do I feel emotionally?

angry, I'm short with people, I can't focus as well, maybe I'm more prone towards sadness, I'm more prone towards fear or anxiousness. Okay, so my mind and body as one in that case where body is impacting how I feel in my mind. Sickness, often when I'm sick, my mood goes all out of whack. When I get a stomach flu, for instance, I will start to notice

I'm getting really, really anxious beforehand or I'm getting angry or I'm getting, you know, I can't focus as well. And then boom, a few hours later, I'm experiencing stomach issues, right? And then a flu will start, right? So mind and body yet again interconnected. Another thing, if I'm hungry, right? This can obviously, we all know that impacts mood, mind and body, right? We often don't make this connection. The mind and body are so interconnected.

So another thing, another way that this is all interconnected is inflammation and the immune system. So our immune system is all throughout our whole body. We have an immune system in our brain. We have an immune system in our gut. have immune system throughout our circulatory system and our respiratory system, et cetera. And we actually have microbiomes in multiple areas in our body as well. So these little microorganisms that are there.

Jake Kastleman (14:17.89)
And so when our immune system is not doing well, if we're not eating well, our immune system goes on overdrive. It goes into fight or flight mode, right? To try to fight off inflammation. It creates inflammation to try to take care of viruses or toxins that are in the body. It's having trouble regulating. And this again can send us into this fight or flight mode in our immune system, which translates into what? Anxiety, depression.

I can't focus, I feel symptoms of ADHD. There are other factors in this too, some of which are genetic, we won't ignore that, but there are so many factors when it comes to nutrition and it comes to exercise. Another factor is blood sugar levels and how they impact mood. This is major for me, I had no idea how major it was until I shifted my diet significantly and I'll talk more about that. But when I'm spiking and dropping,

I'm going through this blood sugar roller coaster all day and most of us in the United States, I would say, go through this every day. We just don't know that. We experience these afternoon crashes of energy. We think that's normal. That didn't used to be normal for people. It's due to our diets. And obviously, in times when people don't have access to adequate nutrition, they wouldn't have regulated blood sugar either. They're starving. And so that makes it obviously very hard mentally and emotionally.

So I, my, when I was about 23 years old, I started by kicking processed sugar and dairy. This was an experimentation for me. I knew some things about processed sugar. I knew some things about conventional dairy. And I started to experience this massive shift in my mood. My anxiety dropped, my energy went up. I was depressed far less. I could focus better. Again, those kind of ADHD symptoms that some of us can have.

Those improved a lot for me. I went to sleep easier. I woke up easier with far more energy, far more motivated, not so groggy and feeling inflamed and feeling, I don't want to get up. I hate the world. So it's still hard to get up every morning. Like it just always is. Maybe one day I won't experience that, but hey, for me, I'm human. still experience that. I don't wake up chipper every day, but it's a whole lot easier than it once was. It doesn't feel impossible.

Jake Kastleman (16:42.826)
like it wants to hit the snooze button over and over again and not wanting to face the day and feeling so anxious and overwhelmed about what's to come, right? That, my diet played into all of that. And if you experience that, your diet can play into this. It's an amazing thing that most of us are not taught. I love the work I get to do as a one-on-one porn addiction recovery coach with men across the world.

My clients feel seen and heard and that they are receiving the tailored help they need with clear, structured exercises and tools to get sober long term. I wanted to share a couple of the stories from these men. The first story is from my client John. He said, I spent many years in denial about my problem, blind to how my actions and behavior hurt myself and those around me.

had tried traditional therapists in the past, but none provided the solutions or tools I needed to overcome my addiction on a day-to-day basis. Jake, however, directly relates to what I'm going through, and it gave me comfort to know that I am not alone in my struggles and that I can overcome my addiction. He has given me the tools and support I needed to get through some of the most difficult times of my life. It has truly been life-changing.

I have been sober seven months now. I have strengthened my relationships with my spouse, children, and friends, and I am more present with those around me, more mindful of my own emotions, and am beginning to take control of my life. The second story is from my client Chris, who said, I found out about Jake through his podcast and was intrigued. The experience working with him has been great to date.

I've worked with many therapists and coaches over the years. Jake stands out partly because he cares so deeply and is so eager to help. He sees my problems and is almost as excited as I am to solve them. I hear him furiously typing notes on his keyboard when we're talking and I hear, am deeply invested in your success in every keystroke. I love his enthusiasm to continually find new ways to help his clients. I'm a big fan of Jake.

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Jake Kastleman (19:29.068)
And so why process sugar? Why would that make a difference? Process sugar, so white sugar, sugar that's been denatured, it's been concentrated. And we wanna think of this like, if you were to eat a reasonable amount of cane sugar in a natural form, right? Or sugar that comes in fruit, it's combined with so many other nutrients.

Right? In fruit, for instance, we can eat fruit. It's combined with complex and simple carbs in a pretty amazing balance where there's little more simple sugars in a lot of fruit than there is the complex sugars. And complex sugars would be fiber. This helps when there's complex sugars, it helps balance out the digestion. So it slows down digestion and your body doesn't spike. You don't have these blood sugar spikes with fruit.

like you would with processed sugar and desserts and things like that. That it's this rush of sugar. This creates inflammation in the body. There's plenty of research on this. It spikes your immune system, right? So your immune system goes on overdrive. This can make you more susceptible to getting sick, right? And viruses overwhelming your body. And so if your immune system's like that, you're in fight or flight, your blood sugar spiked, and then it drops. So spike, boom, I feel hyper, I feel jittery, I feel anxious. And even if it's not jittery,

I'm not quite mentally balanced. Then I drop and then I can't focus as well. So this impacts how I feel the next day. It's not just an instant thing. I want you to understand it's not like the next half hour. Like that's where it starts. This can impact how I feel the next day as well. And there's some really complex interactions with how that functions. Not all of which I understand, but I do know how it feels. And there is plenty of research out there that I've read about.

how this works. So too much sugar also feeds things like Candida and other microorganisms in the gut. Candida, Candida albicans, this is a fungus. We all have it in our gut in proper balance. It's actually very helpful. There's nothing wrong with it. But when we eat too much sugar, Candida feeds on sugar. So when we have a hyper process form of sugar that's deeply concentrated down to a much

Jake Kastleman (21:52.414)
higher concentration than we can find in nature. Now Candida has this access to a plethora of sugar and it can grow and grow and grow and we can experience an overgrowth. And Candida then releases toxic chemicals at that point that travel up our vagus nerve into our brain. And this can cause things like anxiety or depression or even suicidal thoughts or things with mood, addiction cravings.

All of this can come from what I am eating and what's going on inside of my gut. And there's plenty of research on this. You can actually find out about how microorganisms directly impact thought and emotion, like actual thoughts that come up in your head, almost like these little microorganisms are like controlling your brain. It's really amazing when you start to shift your diet and you see how your thoughts change. Phenomenal. Again, the mind and body are far more integrated and mysterious and complex than we really understand.

We're still learning more about that. And so am I. So the other thing is the blood sugar spikes and the drop, right? So we've got inflammation and immune system overdrive. We've got, it's impacting how the balance of microorganisms in my gut and how that's impacting my mood, et cetera. And then the blood sugar spikes and the drops. And then dairy, I was going off of dairy. This is weird for a lot of people. And look, I know I'm challenging like your...

like your favorite foods of all time and I totally get that. This is not easy information and I did this over years of time making these changes when I was ready. I did not do it all at once. If I knew how good I could feel, like if I actually had the ability to step into my body now and feel what I feel like now, and that doesn't mean I'm free of mistakes or hard days or difficulties or stress, I face those every day. But...

It's so much different than when I was younger. There are a lot of things I experienced that I just, I don't often experience things to that level of intensity in many ways. Again, still human, I still experience pain and joy every day. That's a part of life, right? So dairy, what we got to understand is dairy conventionally, like how it's produced now in these,

Jake Kastleman (24:14.5)
massive amounts and put into grocery stores. I understand why business owners did this. I understand that it's brought a lot of profit to a lot of people. I understand it's a really convenient way of getting dairy out to the masses. Again, it's business, it's corporate America, it's feeding people's families, it's making things really convenient and easy. I don't blame anybody for that. There are things that have happened along the way that probably some people knew better.

and they chose to do things in a lazy manner or a way that was worse for the earth, worse for our bodies, and they knew that, but they did it because they wanted to make money. That's unfortunate. Here's the thing, pasteurization, when it comes to dairy, this is going to challenge a lot of beliefs for people, and I get that. Pasteurization, really good intent behind pasteurization. It also prevents a lot of problems and some pretty significant serious health risks.

that can occur with dairy, especially if you're trying to produce it and ship it and all of that. So we started pasteurizing dairy a long time ago. But what happened, what we didn't know at that time is that pasteurization destroys enzymes. Enzymes help me digest dairy. Pasteurization also destroys probiotic bacteria, this good bacteria that lives inside your gut. So no probiotic bacteria, which also impacts how I digest it. It's meant to be so healthy and good for...

good for the body, good for calves, right? Who are feeding from their mother's nipples to get the milk. They get probiotic bacteria which seeds their immune system and makes it strong. Your immune system primarily is made up of your microbiome. It is a crucial key component in your immunity. And so the dairy doesn't have those components, right? So we don't digest it as well. It doesn't go through our body as well.

Cows also eat wheat, corn, and soy instead of grass, or at least they don't eat much. So they often eat these, what do I call them? There's a word for it, but these crops that are in mass production, that they make the most money, right? And they're subsidized by the government. And so wheat, corn, and soy, the farmers will use those to feed cows because it's more affordable for them. That makes sense.

Jake Kastleman (26:28.303)
but it's also not what cows are really meant to eat. It doesn't yield as healthy or as digestible or as powerful of milk as it would from grass, right? So there's different details within that. Then just, so there's a lot of things we can look up and I have information on this in my actual program I do with clients and the content that I give them, but my body just...

My body personally and a lot of people's bodies just doesn't really digest milk very well. And I believe I'm one of those people. I just don't digest it very well. And so it impacts me mentally and emotionally quite a bit. Again, because I think I'm pretty sensitive to how my body feels and about how my mood is impacted. This is, I tend to be very detail oriented. It's one of my greatest strengths.

I'm very grateful for it, but I also notice when things start to go off with something I ate and I'm like, what's going on with my body? What's going on with my brain? And I need to watch that too, because that can, again, it can get into OCD territory and really perfectionistic. It's like the small, it used to be like the smallest little change in mood. was like, my gosh, what's happening to me? IFS helped me with that a lot to recognize parts of my mind, my emotional mind that show up, things that they'll say and to recognize,

Here's painful emotion again. Here's a part that's convincing me of something. Here's a little manager that's trying to convince me things are totally wrong or off or crazy or terrible. And this is gonna make my life so bad when I'm just experiencing an upheaval in emotion or something that's intense or something that's difficult to experience. And I can explore that. can look at it and say, okay, what's behind this for me? So diet plays in all this though, needless to say, right? Sugar.

Dairy, kicking these out, my life became so much easier, my recovery became so much easier, my cravings decreased significantly. That was something that I found shocking. It surprised me so much. But when you consider mind and body are so intertwined and how this actually impacts how I feel mentally and emotionally and the consideration that my emotional mind will seek out addiction as a way to try to bring homeostasis to me, try to bring comfort and peace to my body.

Jake Kastleman (28:45.879)
tried to help me feel okay and happy. So if I biologically don't feel well and happy, then that the emotional aspect of my mind is going to seek out something to try to make me feel better. So my cravings decreased. And I believe that I'm sure there's research out there on this. It is deeply biological. Like it's even to the point where you wouldn't really recognize what's going on. I know for me, if I consume a bunch of processed sugar,

To be honest, I crave masturbation like crazy. That sounds so odd to say, like how would that work? And I felt really weird about that for a lot of years. I feel kind of awkward saying that right now, but I'm expressing that because I think it's very important for people to understand this, how significant a role our diets can play in something that we really may not expect by craving masturbation. Like how would diet play a role in that?

I can't say all the reasons, but I can say that how we are doing biologically impacts how we are doing mentally. This is going to feed straight into cravings. Masturbation for me as a kid, as a 12 year old, that was my go-to for comfort. That was how I sought out to try to feel okay in my life. Because I was under a lot of mental and emotional stress internally. Had a lot of things genetically that were off, a lot of things with my body that were off, lot of ways emotionally I felt off.

That was what I went to. That's the habit that my brain developed. And so that makes sense. My brain, a part of my brain would say, that's where we go for comfort. So after that, over years of time, I continuously just made my diet more and more whole, less and less artificial, cutting out artificial ingredients. I stopped eating fast food. I'm really picky about where I do eat. It's more high quality kind of fast food, but it's not like...

It's not things like, well, I hate saying this, but like Taco Bell or McDonald's or Burger King. I just don't eat those because when I eat them, they make me feel crappy. I don't judge anybody who eats them. They're delicious. I totally get that. But for me, it's not worth it because over the next 24 or even 48 hours, it impacts how I feel and I don't like that. I want to be able to have an easier time in my recovery and to be able to stay sober and that, that impedes that.

Jake Kastleman (31:09.888)
So eventually, I also tried to go vegan. I did that for almost two years. I did experience benefits from that for sure. But this sounds cliche to say getting enough protein was extremely challenging. And so eventually I had to stop that. And then from there, I cut out grains. This is shocking for people, but grains, know, and grains like wheat or

You know, mostly things that contain wheat, but also rice, oats. I don't eat these anymore, at least at this phase in my life, and I don't plan to go back, not that I know of. Because why? Mostly simply because of blood sugar, because these things are, they have a higher glycemic index, they spike blood sugar, and I really am very sensitive to that. Not everybody might be that way, but for me, it really impacts me.

And I venture to say it impacts a lot of people that just don't know it does, because that's the way they always feel. And so I cut out grains and I began eating the Paleo diet is where I ended up. And that's where I've been for a while now. I think it's about three years, I suppose. And if you actually go to Diary of a CEO, it's a podcast, I love it.

It's amazing with Stephen Bartlett. There's an episode called Number One Brain Doctor and it's Dr. Amen, who's the foremost expert on ADHD. He's on there talking about the paleo diet. And well, he's on there talking about a lot of things about how nutrition impacts the brain and a host of other things from dementia to anxiety to ADHD, all of it. But he does in the episode,

he's asked, what's the ultimate diet for the brain? And, you know, brush my shoulders off. It's the paleo diet. And when I heard that, was like, I'm already doing that. So, you know, that's nice when, you know, an expert says do this and you're like, I'm already doing it. You know, great, great for me. I don't have to change anything, right? And I don't say, I say that there's a part of me that wants to, you know, validate or legitimize what I'm saying here, but more so I really want to stress like,

Jake Kastleman (33:31.2)
This is so powerful. There are experts out there talking about this and they're talking about how diet impacts the brain. And so for me, the paleo diet, I didn't choose that necessarily, but I just wound up there and eventually I was like, I guess I'm eating the paleo diet. Like there came a day where I was like, wait a second. And I looked up the description and I was like, that's essentially the diet that I eat. Okay, I guess I can associate with a group now.

kind of a nice feeling to be able to identify with a group, right? But that doesn't mean it's right for you. This depends on you personally. For me, that's where I ended up and that's what's helped me the most. You know, for me, when it comes to my clients, when it comes to what I produce, I have a series of lessons that have my clients go through that talks about nutrition and its impact on the brain and step-by-step exercises for them to implement.

changes into their diet from a practical standpoint. Then we collaborate in session, we talk about things that are working or what's not working and what they're doing, right? This is a part of the program. And for me, I'm not here to push an agenda on anybody, like you have to eat the Paleo diet. That's worked for me, but more so it's eating more whole, eating healthier. This is going to make your recovery so much easier. It's absolutely transformed things for me. So,

I hope that this episode has been helpful to you, my friend. Again, if it has been, follow this podcast, hit the notification bell and give me a rating so that others can find this podcast as well. God bless and much love, my friend.

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Thanks for listening to No More Desire. It's a genuine blessing for me to do the work that I do and I wouldn't be able to do it without you, my listeners, so thank you. If you've enjoyed today's episode, do me a favor. Follow this podcast, hit the notification bell and shoot me a rating. The more people who do this, the more men this podcast will reach. So take a few minutes of your time and hit those buttons. If you want to take your sobriety to the next level, check out my free workshop, The Eight Keys to Lose Your Desire for Porn.

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