Paul Saladino· MD
they found that vegetarians still had a positive response in the brain to meat
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they found that vegetarians still had a positive response in the brain to meat
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vegetarians have an awareness a cognitive subjective conscious aversion to food that is based on their cognitive bias but at the neural level the intrinsic motivational salience or relevance of meat is preserved meaning that even in vegetarians who think that they don't like meat their brain can't lie and at a deep level in the brain they still respond positively to meat if this is not indisputable proof that we have evolved eating meat and that humans are meant and hardwired to eat meat i don't know what is
if this is not indisputable proof that we have evolved eating meat and that humans are meant and hardwired to eat meat i don't know what is
in vegetarians the aversions toward non-vegetarian food that is meat it prevails at the subjective level kind of the cognitive bias level and is consistent with their personal beliefs meaning that vegetarians have an awareness a cognitive subjective conscious aversion to food that is based on their cognitive bias but at the neural level the intrinsic motivational salients or relevance of meat is preserved meaning that even in vegetarians who think that they don't like meat their brain can't lie and at a deep level in the brain they still respond positively to meat
there's actually a study that shows that that if you look at the brains in vegans and vegetarians and you show these people images of meat their brains still crave the meat