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Controlling Sugar Cravings & Metabolism with Science-Based Tools

Huberman Lab

How to Short Circuit the Dopomine Release in Response to a Sweet Food

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The glyciamic index is a measure of how hard we are pushing down on three neural circuits. Sweet foods, or things that we perceive as sweet, but also sweet things, trigger the release of dopamean and trigger these neural circuits to make us want to eat more of them. The drug cocaine causes very robust, potent increases in dopomine within brain,. typically causes people to want to, injest, more cocaine because of those sharp increases in dopamine.

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