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#217 - Why food cravings are killing us, and how to stop them | Mark Schatzker & Dr. Casey Means - (Replay)

LEVELS – A Whole New Level

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The Neuroscience of Craving

Cravings have a negative connotation. We think we're victims of craving dysentery. But it's important to understand this is a natural thing. And if you look at humans or animals in a natural context, it performs a very important task. The obese brain says, I got to have that milkshake. That milkshake looks like the best thing ever. When it comes time to actually sipping and tasting that milkshakes, the pleasure response is blunted. So it really is a miserable condition. It is such a distorted and terrible relationship with food because people are tortured by a craving for an expectation of pleasure that has never really fulfilled.

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