Andrew Huberman· PhD
it seems that repeated exposure to something like high fat food a drug of abuse or any type of reward that is a really strong reward in a way it can hijack normal functioning of the nucleus accumbens
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it seems that repeated exposure to something like high fat food a drug of abuse or any type of reward that is a really strong reward in a way it can hijack normal functioning of the nucleus accumbens
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if you expose a mouse to high fat food not food that they would normally eat food that is like 60 fat high fat it's like butter um we've learned that if you expose them to food like that within two weeks their nucleus accumbens is not functioning like a mouse that was never exposed to that high fat food there's aspects of it that are hyperactive I could say and there's aspects of it that are hypoactive or decreased activity but either way it's it's not functioning properly and most likely that function is predisposing continued behavior