Andrew Huberman· PhD
THC on the other hand you know it hits the brain yes some of it's going to be the intoxication but in tandem you're going to hit the CB1 receptors that are in those feeding circuits as well and the consequence of that is going to be I mean the way I kind of analogize it to people is I say it's almost like tricking the brain into thinking that you've been fasting because you're now activating receptors that are normally activated following kind of a fasting State and as a consequence of that it pushes someone or an organism or human or whatever into a state of food seeking Behavior because now food also has high reward value and they're kind of the way their food circuitry is responding in the brain at least seems to be similar to what would happen if they' been fasted and the thought is that's why when people you know when someone gets Stone they're not like going eat lettuce they want high calorie food they tend to like things that are high carb high fat that that combo seems to be what people like when they're intoxicated with cannabis and that comes with a lot of calories and the point of that would be trying to replenish lost energy stores