Dopamine Articles:
The Pleasure of Food and Obesity
The acquisition of food is vital for survival. Due to this important fact the pleasure-related reward circuitry in the brain is designed to make eating and pleasure go hand in hand. Indeed, when mice have this pleasure circuitry knocked out then they won’t even bother to acquire food in easy reach and starve. While this principle is vital for survival, it is also fundamental to overeating and almost all other addictive tendencies are founded on food acquisition brain circuitry.Read More: B Vitamins, dopamine, overeating, stress eating, tyrosine
Food Addiction and Stress Eating Mechanism Identified
By experimenting with mice that were bred to have no sweet-taste ability, a direct link of food intake to pleasure has been identified for the first time. This mechanism is important because it links food acquisition directly to addictive or stress-related eating “solutions.”Read More: cravings, dopamine, food addiction, LeptiSlim®, Pine Nut Oil, pleasure, reward
Obesity and the Pleasure of Food
Low levels of dopamine in your brain will cause you to eat more food so that you feel good. New research shows that obese animals have half the dopamine levels of normal, and it took much more stimulation to get an adequate release of pleasure.Read More: dopamine, pleasure, Stress Helper®, Thyroid Helper®
Pleasure, Brain Pain, and Food Desire
Dopamine is an important nerve transmitter involved with reward. It is released when you eat, so that you know eating is good and thus you will survive. Some individuals don’t release a normal amount, thus they eat more to get the same feeling of satisfaction that someone else gets eating less food. A new study with advanced brain imaging while milkshakes were being consumed has proved this point.Read More: dopamine, food intake, pleasure, Stress Helper®, Thyroid Helper®
Thyroid, Food Addiction, and the Metabolically Unfit Fat Cell
The following are the lecture notes from a talk I gave back in 2005 to the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. The information is just as valid today as it was then – as a number of newer studies continue to prove these points – especially regarding food cravings and food addiction. This file contains extensive information that is of value for any person seeking a more in-depth understanding of this important subject.Read More: addiction, dopamine
How an Altered Pleasure Desire Results in Weight Gain
Two new studies presented at the annual meeting of Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) are helping to clarify the rather insidious nature of food cravings that result in overeating and weight gain. The desire for pleasure is normal. Eating produces a feeling of pleasure so that you eat, and thus survive.Read More: dopamine, food cravings, Leptin Control Pack®, Leptinal®, LeptiSlim®, opiods
Leptin Now Directly Linked to the Pleasure of Food & Human Behavior
Researchers at the University of Michigan are the first to document a new leptin pathway in the brain – one related to the pleasure of eating. They found leptin receptors in a part of the hypothalamus gland that directly influences the production of dopamine, in turn influencing basic mechanism of human behavior behind the desire to acquire, pleasure, and the sense of reward. While this mechanism certainly applies to food – it is a key factor that drives all sorts of human behaviors (both good and bad).Read More: dopamine, Leptin Control Pack®, Leptinal®, LeptiSlim®, pleasure
ADHD Involves Disturbed Reward Brain Circuitry
There are a number of brain-related issues involved with the attention deficit problem. New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that one of the problems is a lack of dopamine. Dopamine is needed for motivation and a sense of reward for attaining something. Dopamine is behind “brain drive” that engages a person consistently towards a goal.Read More: dopamine, motivation, reward
Linking Appetite and Parkinson’s
Your stomach may be more powerful than you think. Its appetite hormone, ghrelin, has now been found to protect the dopamine nerves in your brain, a finding that is relevant to any person at risk for Parkinson’s.Read More: appetite hormone, dopamine, Ghrelin, Leptin Control Pack®, Leptinal®, LeptiSlim®, Parkinson's, PhosphatidylSerine PS
The Addictive Nature of Compulsive Eating
Is there any difference between obsessive eating and drug addiction? The answer, as far as brain circuitry is concerned, is no. Both problems are about reward circuitry in the brain gone awry. Pleasure is required for survival and pleasure is required for addiction – a conundrum of the highest order magnitude.Read More: addiction, cravings, dopamine, Leptin Control Pack®, Leptinal®, LeptiSlim®, reward
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