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Eating for your brain, with Kimberley Wilson

Instant Genius

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Are They Really Boosting Your Mood?

Ice cream, that lovely combination of fat and sugar, which hits the bliss point, which just kind of lights up your your soul, but also your brain. And we'll promote the release of of dopemin and other kind of pleasurable at signalling molecules. So you will get a boost from that. Just anything that tastes sweet tends to make us feel a little bit happier and or a little bit more relaxed. The issue becomes on a kind of long term t e basis, what are you eating consistently? If your only way of coping with stress is to have a bowl of ice cream then we have a problem that needs a dressing. But the occasional bowl of ice Cream is going to be

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