Andrew Huberman· PhD
Both result in dopamine release & thereby the desire to eat more.
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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.
Both result in dopamine release & thereby the desire to eat more.
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But if you eat something with sugar, as we'll find out, it has a very specific action in the insular cortex and in other areas of your nervous system that promotes the desire to eat more.
The fact that so many cells and organs and tissues require glucose in order to function has led to a situation where you have dedicated neural machinery, pieces of your brain, that are almost entirely, if not entirely devoted, to seeking out of sugar or foods that contain sugars.