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How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods

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What Is a Gut Intuition?

For hundreds of years people have thought that the way that sweet too sweet Foods tasted wage. You eat something that tastes sweet you want more of it? Well, it's much more interesting than that when you eat something sweet within your stomach you have that cells neurons that sense the presence of sugary Foods independent of their taste and signal to the brain. Those sensors as neurons send information off to Vegas to your brain goes through a series of stations and then you release dopamine this molecule that makes you want more of whatever it is that you just ingested. In fact wage Pathways are so powerful that they've done experiments where they completely numb all the taste and feeling in somebody's mouth there blindfolded

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