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Medicine
fromScienceDaily
6 days ago

Her food cravings vanished on Mounjaro then roared back

Tirzepatide temporarily suppresses neural activity in brain reward regions linked to compulsive food cravings, but the suppression is transient and fades over time.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

How Diet Culture Drives Binge-Eating Disorder

This is what we know: Dietary restriction (also called caloric deprivation) results in hunger, which leads to a biologically driven binge. My previous mentor liked to say that our bodies don't care if we are happy; they want us to survive. So just as depriving your body of fluids creates extreme thirst (our body's way of urging us to drink water)
Mental health
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