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How Do Donuts Affect Addiction?
There are a host of changes that happen in the brain with addiction. First of all, dopamine down regulation. The receptors become less numerous, less responsive to compensate for this flood That keeps coming in all the time. So that is challenging because now you're rewiring the brain. And that's going to be fine as long as you keep swinging by that coffee shop and getting that fixed... But if you don't start topping up every few hours, you're going to have a problem.