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this episode of dnews is brought to you bydomain.com okay so we’re a month behind in meme time,but we know goats crave that mineral but why do we crave anything? cravings are a strange phenomena and it’snot just pregnant women who get them. folk wisdom says that craving a mineral meansyou have some mineral deficiency. but let’s

Science Diet Dog Food Coupons, be real here, if that worked then we wouldall crave healthy foods rather than mac and cheese and chocolate. recently, researchers from the picower institutefor learning and memory looked at sugar cravings in mice to see whatwas going on in the brain. they looked at

the relationship between the the ventral tegmentalarea which is the brain’s natural reward processing center and the lateral hypothalamuswhich is responsible for feeding. they used a technique called optogenetics.this process uses light to trigger light sensitive proteins that can activate or silence a setof neurons that connect these two parts of the brain. when activated, the mice stuffed their faceswith sweetness and overate even when they weren’t hungry. when silenced, the micestill ate regular food when they were hungry, but they no longer compulsively ate the sugar.this indicated that the neural circuit for sugar cravings is a different circuit thanthe one that regulates healthy eating.

mice aside, for us most cravings start witha cue. think of pavlov’s dogs. something happens that just gets our mouth watering.like dreaming of your mom’s roast beef as soon as you land back in your hometown orcraving ice cream on a hot summer day. another cue for most people is stress, which can triggercravings for comfort food. we crave chocolate during hormonal fluctuations, not for anybiological reason. we’ve just come to associate the chocolate with comfort during a prettyuncomfortable time of the month. cravings feel so strong because they are sovivid in the mind. the very act of craving a food, not just being hungry and wantingto eat, but craving something specific like ice cream or chocolate, conjures up imagesin the brain, which uses up cognitive resources.

one study showed that those who craved chocolatedid worse on memory and math problems. we can literally distract ourselves with ourcravings. we typically crave high-caloric foods, stuffedwith fat and sugar, because they were a rarity in our evolutionary past. we evolved a rewardsystem associated with these foods. when we eat sweets our brain kicks off a cascade ofchemistry, feel good hormones like dopamine and serotonin flood our system, giving usa bit of a sugar high. so when we’re stressed and need a bit of a pick me up, we turn tothese foods. while we all crave something at some pointin our lives, unusual cravings might be a sign of an underlying medical condition.

craving salt? you might have addison’s disease.addison’s disease degrades the endocrine system leading to electrolyte imbalances.the adrenal glands don’t make enough cortisol and al doss ter own aldosterone. aldosteronehelps the body hold on to the salt it needs. when you don’t make enough of it, you canget an unusually strong desire to eat salty things. craving chalk? or paint chips? you might havepica, named from the latin for magpie, because of the belief magpies’lll eat anything.pica is the bizarre behavior of eating things like clay, chalk, soap, dirt, or rocks. scientiststhink a lack of nutrients might cause this craving maybe because of an iron deficiency,celiacs disease or hookworm. mental health

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