Andrew Huberman· PhD
when we eat sugary foods, a gut-to-brain (hormone independent) pathway signals our brain to make us crave and eat more sugar… and it all happens below our conscious awareness.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
when we eat sugary foods, a gut-to-brain (hormone independent) pathway signals our brain to make us crave and eat more sugar… and it all happens below our conscious awareness.
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our body is shaping the decisions that our brain is making and we're not aware of it at all.
Sugar (particularly glucose) is sensed by a network in the gut which sends signals via the vagus nerve to a brain region where activation then increases motivation to consume more sugar.