8 Causes of Cravings
Jul 08, 2025
The body is amazing. It knows when to go to sleep, when to wake up, and when to go to the bathroom. It maintains a temperature of 98.6 degrees, repairs itself when wounded, and knows the miracle of pregnancy and childbirth. Your heart never misses a beat. Your lungs are always breathing. The body is a super computer, and it never makes mistakes.
The 8 causes of cravings include:
- Lack of Primary Food: Primary food includes relationships, exercise, having a career or job that you love, and a satisfying spiritual practice.
- Water: Too much or too little water can cause cravings.
- Yin-Yang Imbalance: Certain foods have a yin or yang balance. It's important to have a little of both.
- Inside Coming Out: Craving foods eaten by our ancestors, or childhood foods.
- Seasonal: Often the body craves foods that balance the elements of the season. In the spring, people crave detoxifying foods like leafy greens and citrus foods. In the summer, people crave cooling foods like fruit, raw foods, and ice cream, and in the fall people crave grounding foods like squash, onions, and nuts. During winter, many crave hot and heat-producing foods like meat, oil, and fat. Cravings can also be associated with the holidays, for foods like turkey, eggnog, and sweets.
- Lack of Nutrients: If the body has inadequate nutrients, you'll have odd cravings. For example, inadequate mineral levels produce salt cravings, and overall inadequate nutrition produces cravings for non-nutritional forms of energy, like caffeine.
- Hormonal: When women experience menstruation, pregnancy, or menopause, fluctuating testosterone and estrogen levels may cause unique cravings.
- De-evolution: When things are going extremely well in your life, sometimes self-sabotage happens. We crave foods that throw us off, thus creating more cravings to balance ourselves. This often happens from low blood sugar and may result in strong mood swings.
Look at the foods, deficits, and behaviors in your life that are underlying causes of your cravings. Many people view cravings as weakness, but really, they're important messages meant to help you in maintaining balance. When you experience a craving, deconstruct it. Ask yourself, what does my body want and why?
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