Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
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Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
Our brains are not evolved for this world of plenty. As Dr. Tom Finucane, who studies diabetes in the setting of chronic sedentary feeding, said, “We are cacti in the rain forest.” And like cacti adapted to an arid climate, we are drowning in dopamine.
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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.
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while the taste for sweetness is innate to all human beings and common to all cultures, when it comes to actual sweet foods—and other unhealthy processed foods—we show profoundly varied responses.