Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
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Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
How Our Hormones Control Our Hunger, Eating & Satiety
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How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods
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When you eat something sweet, neurons in the stomach sense the sweetness and cause the release of dopamine in the brain making you crave sugar.
Andrew Huberman • How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods
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Glutamine also reduces sugar craving by increasing blood sugar levels. Emulsifiers strip away the mucosal lining of the blood and cause the neurons to retract deeper into the tract. This stops the triggering of CCK signals. They also increase the neurons measuring sugar and trigger dopamine in the brain. This can lead to an overcompensation effect ... See more
Andrew Huberman • How Our Hormones Control Our Hunger, Eating & Satiety
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It should: sugar, in the way it stimulates the release of dopamine, resembles drugs of abuse.
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
“There is nothing programmed into our brains that makes us see a box of doughnuts and automatically want a sugary treat,” Schultz told me. “But once our brain learns that a doughnut box contains yummy sugar and other carbohydrates, it will start anticipating the sugar high. Our brains will push us toward the box. Then, if we don’t eat the doughnut,
... See moreCharles Duhigg • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
So it’s better to view our taste buds as an adaptation fitted to ancestral conditions that included near-starvation and apples and roast rabbit, which modern humans execute in a new context that includes cheap chocolate and constant bombardment by advertisements.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Maybe obesity rates have increased because food is more enjoyable than it has ever been, causing people to eat more. Rewards reinforce behavior, and the behavior of eating is rewarded by the palatability—the deliciousness—of the food. The increased palatability of food is not accidental. Societal changes have resulted in more meals being eaten away
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