Andrew Huberman· PhD
The savory foods are often laden with these hidden sugars that we can't register as sweetness, but trigger the neuropod cells, which then further trigger dopamine, which make us want more of them.
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The savory foods are often laden with these hidden sugars that we can't register as sweetness, but trigger the neuropod cells, which then further trigger dopamine, which make us want more of them.
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So we've all heard of hidden sugars, meaning the sugars that manufacturers have put into foods and disguised them with other flavors. The savory foods are often laden with these hidden sugars that we can't register as sweetness but trigger the neuropod cells which then further trigger dopamine which make us want more of them.