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.
What's is that highly processed foods are hijacking, co-opting these circuits in a way that it would've never happened in nature. And then we not only find these things appetitive and palatable, but in addition, we are continuously reinforcing, the wanting in a way that, oh my God, this is so great.
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So it's not unreasonable then to assume that dedicated brain circuits would've evolved to ensure their recognition, their ingestion and the reinforcement that that is what I need.
but I could imagine and here's the hypothesis that that is quote unquote confusing to our neural circuits in a way that doesn't match up well with our thermodynamic requirements of how much we're burning versus how much we need to eat
and that highly processed foods bypass all of this and just get you to consume more perhaps in hopes of getting something that you probably aren't getting at all or that you need to consume a lot of this food in order to get
if you think about highly processed food or even combinations of multiple ingredients that's absolutely impossible to do the brain can't parse what are the various things in here and how do they relate to my feelings of satisfaction
we know that these Ultra processed foods are not causing satiety that is we know that they're reort you know activating these addictive reward Pathways in our brain