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472: Separating hunger cues & cravings | Functional medicine doctor Amy Shah, M.D.

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Break Your Fast With Dopamine Rich Foods

Dopamine is closely related to norepinephrine, which gives you that adrenaline boost in the morning. Dopamine rich foods are the high protein foods. It's the yogurt, it's the egg scramble, it's a tofu scramble and nuts and seeds. naturally high protein foods are the dopamine rich foods because they contain an amino acid called tyrosine, which converts into dopamine in the brain.

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