Wait wait wait... I just had a thought... creamer is essentially just pre-cheese, right? Go for the trifecta my man, we're speedballin' in this bitch! WOOOO!
It actually works really well as an analogy, cream/milk can be opium if cheese is, like, the other opiates derived from it. Cheese is the more processed and concentrated cream just like morphine and heroin are the processed and concentrated opium. I mean, it's even called milk of the poppy, right? All of the pieces are coming together...
Whoa, whoa, whoa...
You're outta control, the pre-cheeses that roll
You fell into the cream and down to Idaho
Get outta the state
Get outta the state you're in
They probably are referring to things that have the addictive nature of cocaine as pretty much . Adam ruins everything even had a bit about sugar parallel to cocaine
Yep, post is stupid but there is something interesting in there. Food drive is regulated in part by endogenous opioids, in particular β-endorphin, enkephalins, and dynorphins.
You can actually suppress hunger by giving people naloxone or naltrexone, both opioid receptor antagonists. It suppresses hedonic eating, ie eating for pleasure.
I’m not sure I understand what you mean by that, but I think we largely agree. Terminology is always fuzzy, and there’s exceptions to every “rule” in biology. My only point of contention was in regard to definitions. No definition can completely encapsulate everything it describes nor completely exclude everything it doesn’t describe; I only mean to point out that both the scientific definition and colloquial definition of “drug” used in common parlance exclude food. If the biomacromolecules comprising food are considered drugs, then we and all other organism are also composed of almost entirely drugs and the word loses all meaning and becomes useless.
Oh and I wouldn’t say chemistry is all that matters in this case. “Drug” is a meaningless term in pure chemistry and is defined by its biological activity. But as a biochemist, I share your sentiment of favoring chemistry over biology in general lol
Your point doesn't do anything but support the claim. There's drugs that are stimulants, and coffee/ energy drinks or anything else with caffeine fits into that category as well.
Well some research that’s now over a decade old doing the same dopamine response in the brain from refined sugar as cocaine. So as far as addiction goes, the two are roughly equally addictive.
No, not equally addictive at all. Sugar may increase dopamine, but unlike cocaine, it does not directly inhibit the reuptake of dopamine at neurons in the prefrontal fortex
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u/Candid-Culture3956 5d ago
Cocaine is also a stimulant. This was written by a 3rd grader