Andrew Huberman· PhD
But remember, sweet taste itself stimulates the desire to eat, which will increase more blood glucose.
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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.
But remember, sweet taste itself stimulates the desire to eat, which will increase more blood glucose.
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It tells us that we are actually wired to pursue things that increase our blood glucose, so much so that when the small lab... It's not a small lab. It's actually a big lab. But when Dana Small's lab, and/or Ivan de Araujo's
we don't just like sweet foods because they taste good, we like them because they predict a certain kind of metabolic response.
So we are motivated to eat sweet things not just because they taste good, but because they change our blood sugar level. They increase our blood sugar level.
If you recall, the goal is to get neurons to be metabolically active with that blood glucose, okay? That's what's actually rewarded at a sub-sub-conscious level, meaning at a deep subconscious level.
So what we start to realize is that a sharp rise in blood glucose or a very high degree of elevation in blood glucose, is going to be a much more potent signal than would a more moderate rise in blood glucose or a slower rise in blood glucose.
Basically getting sweet stuff into the body might seem like it has a lot to do with the taste, but it has just as much to do with the nutritive components that sweet tasting foods carry, and the fact that your nervous system and so many cells in your brain and body run on glucose.
We are driven meaning we have mechanisms in our brain that make us motivated to pursue more of what brings both a taste of sweetness but also that brings actual changes in blood glucose levels up. Okay. So we are motivated to eat sweet things not just because they taste good but because they change our blood sugar level. They increase our blood sugar level.
two ways that really get us into forward motion toward pursuing the consumption of sweet foods.