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MBPP EP. 618 - Food & Pornography Are Just As Addictive as Drugs ft. Anna Lembke

Mark Bell's Power Project

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The Effects of Food on the Brain

Dopamine is at the heart of the disease of addiction. We have adulterated our food with more salt, fat and sugar than what nature intended us to ingest or tolerate. So yes, I do think that we can get addicted to food. There is a subset of people for whom food is their primary drug. They will crave food and compulsively over consumed food in a way that they may never do with alcohol or stimulants or sex.

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