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.
Our brain is very carefully paying attention to whether or not the levels of dopamine that are being triggered are within a normal range for typical eating behavior or whether or not we've gorged ourselves to the point where enough already.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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So it's a wonderful thing that those neurons are communicating with areas of the brain not just that stimulate consuming more food but that are communicating with areas of the brain, for instance, area postrema, that when dopamine levels get too high, cause us to either stop eating that food or in the case of vomiting to eject that food.