Why our brains can’t resist sugar : NPR

You probably know the feeling of eating a heart meal at a restaurant, and they feel complete and satisfied … just to look into the sweet menu and decide that the item looks only irreparable.

So why is it that you couldn’t get another bite at all, but you somehow exempt for a sweet invitation? Or as Jerry Sinfield can place it back in the day “What is he dealt with with sweet?!”

Scientists now have a better understanding of the nervous beginning of this desire. Recent studies Appeared in the journal Science.

While working with mice, researchers tried to establish a scenario like the aforementioned human experience. They offered mice a standard diet that had not eaten since the past day. The “meal” continued for 90 minutes, and the mice ate until they eat more.

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Then it was a 30 -minute “sweet” period. In the first round of experiment, the researchers offered more mice for dessert, and the rats ate a little more.

For the second time, during the “sweet” period, they offered a high sugar feed for mice for 30 minutes. The rats really went to the sugar feed, eating six times more calories from the time they had a regular chow for dessert.

In mice, researchers oversee the activity of neurons, which is affiliated with the emotions of the whole, called POMC neurons. They are located in a part of the brain called Hypothelmus, which is “very important for promoting sarcasm”, Henning Fanclow, one of the study authors and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in the German city of Cologne.

Scientists found that when mice were eating high sugar diet, Neuron issued beta Andorphin, an endogens opium-which is born in your body. It is bound by opium receptors in the brains of chemical mice and created a sense of reward.

“When we taste the taste of a sweet thing, it is not just the sugar we are eating – it is mobilizing a system in the brain that connects the sweet taste that we want to continue to eat,” a researcher who did not study health and health.

When the team then blocked the opium route, the rats stay away from sugar.

Researchers found the same nervous method in humans when studying the donated mental tissues and scanning the brains of volunteers, who were sitting in the FMRI machine and fed sugar solutions by tube.

Fanslao says that scientists concluded that “opium action -powered utility in this part of the brain contains such actions that contain high sugar coughs.”

The results show that people’s brains are ready to love more and more sugar, says Fennella.

In other research, our brain has a link between sugar consumption and the dopamine system. Even some research suggests that sugar effects on the brain can be like addictive drugs in a long time.

The study at the Max Planck Institute was short-term-the researchers did not stop the diet over time to see if the mice had experienced weight or experienced other metabolic changes.

Joseph says, “To see how these circuits work during the long -term, especially with chronic exposure to diabetes,” compulsory can be important to understand the development of sugar consumption.

Fennella says the study of this nervous prize can highlight how excessive sugar reduction can help in the development of obesity.

So what weight loss drugs that prevent appetite as well as prevent opium receptors? There is such a product in the market, Neltraxon Bipopin, which is sold in the United States under the brand name Sirio. It is a combination of bacterial, an anti-depressant that can also suppress appetite, and also suppress Opel-Black Nalaricoxone, which is often recommended for the treatment of addiction.

But Fanslao says it is not as effective as new weight loss medicines such as Ozampic and Vigo.

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