Dr. Shebani Sethi

You downregulate the receptors for pleasure, so you have to take more of the stuff to actually stimulate that reward pathway. Yeah. And it's really this vicious cycle that people get into. And then they blame themselves and they feel guilty for doing it. And they think they just have no willpower. But you're saying it's much bigger than that.

You downregulate the receptors for pleasure, so you have to take more of the stuff to actually stimulate that reward pathway. Yeah. And it's really this vicious cycle that people get into. And then they blame themselves and they feel guilty for doing it. And they think they just have no willpower. But you're saying it's much bigger than that.

You downregulate the receptors for pleasure, so you have to take more of the stuff to actually stimulate that reward pathway. Yeah. And it's really this vicious cycle that people get into. And then they blame themselves and they feel guilty for doing it. And they think they just have no willpower. But you're saying it's much bigger than that.

I call sugar a recreational drug. I've never heard anybody say it, but I always write down in my book, sugar is a recreational drug. It's like if you like tequila, it's fine, but not breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the quantities we're having in America.

I call sugar a recreational drug. I've never heard anybody say it, but I always write down in my book, sugar is a recreational drug. It's like if you like tequila, it's fine, but not breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the quantities we're having in America.

I call sugar a recreational drug. I've never heard anybody say it, but I always write down in my book, sugar is a recreational drug. It's like if you like tequila, it's fine, but not breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the quantities we're having in America.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, cookies and toilet paper.

Yeah, cookies and toilet paper.

Yeah, cookies and toilet paper.

No. It wasn't a run on broccoli.

No. It wasn't a run on broccoli.

No. It wasn't a run on broccoli.

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