How to Beat Any Addiction, with Dr. Anna Lembke, Author of Dopamine Nation
Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels
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The Effects of Food Addiction on the Brain
The same parts of the brain that process pleasure also process pain. When people say they can't stop eating, what they're telling you is my pleasure pain balance is chronically tilted to the side of pain. I've got a ton of neuro adaptation gremlins camped out there such that when I try to stop eating cookies and cupcakes, those gremlins smash me down to the sideof pain. It's like trying to not scratch, you know, a poison oak itch that you have even in the middle of God, it's hypheno consequence. But if they can just go long enough without using eventually those g Remlins will get the memo about no more high potency,
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