Sugar Addiction
2019-12-01 22:08:25.47218+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
British Journal of Sports Medicine: Sugar addiction: is it real? A narrative review
Abstract In animal studies, sugar has been found to produce more symptoms than is required to be considered an addictive substance. Animal data has shown significant overlap between the consumption of added sugars and drug-like effects, including bingeing, craving, tolerance, withdrawal, cross-sensitisation, cross-tolerance, cross-dependence, reward and opioid effects. Sugar addiction seems to be dependence to the natural endogenous opioids that get released upon sugar intake. In both animals and humans, the evidence in the literature shows substantial parallels and overlap between drugs of abuse and sugar, from the standpoint of brain neurochemistry as well as behaviour.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2017-097971
So, yeah, sex addiction isn't real, sugar addiction is real, and sugar is a gateway drug.