Read more about Food Addiction
This page is concentrating on food addiction. Here at The Real CBD, we write weekly articles about different ailments and how CBD products can have a positive impact on your life in general. We chose lifestyle conditions people typically suffer from and may take prescription medication for.
What is Food addiction?
This is what brain imaging and other studies have found about how compulsive overeating affects the brain’s pleasure centers.
Experiments with animals and people show that for some people, the same parts of the brain that are activated by drugs like cocaine and heroin are also activated by food, especially very tasty foods. Foods that are very tasty are high in:
Dopamine and other chemicals in the brain that makes you feel good are also released by foods that are very tasty. When people eat certain foods that make them feel good and cause more dopamine to be sent along the brain’s reward pathway, they quickly feel the need to eat again.
CBD can help overcome food addiction
What other things can CBD help with?
CBD can help with:
There are key signs of food addiction:
- End up eating more than planned when you start eating certain foods
- Keep eating certain foods even if you’re no longer hungry
- Eat to the point of feeling ill
- Worry about not eating certain types of foods or worry about cutting down on certain types of foods
- When certain foods aren’t available, go out of your way to obtain them
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