Andrew Huberman· PhD
In fact, there's a whole literature related to comfort foods and why we want to consume comfort foods under conditions of chronic stress.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
In fact, there's a whole literature related to comfort foods and why we want to consume comfort foods under conditions of chronic stress.
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So there's one study that Dallman and her colleagues did where they stimulate chronic stress by increasing corticosteroids, cortisol. And they found that subjects would increase their consumption of sugar and fat.