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Judson Brewer, MD, PhD | Unwinding Unhealthy Habits

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Refined Sugar

People think of dopamine firing as rewarding. But if you really look at dopamine firing, they don't talk about that craving as feeling good. With sugar, there's something that drives us to get more. So our survival brains say, get as much sugar as you can in your body so you can store it as fat.

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