One approach to overcoming addiction is abstinence and 12-step programs.But can foods and drugs literally hijack our brains? Stimuli are not inherently addictive, but only become so through learning processes.One prevalent idea is that addiction and obesity result from supernormal stimuli - intense cues for food, sex and sociality that hijack our brains.I’ll focus in this talk on one causal factor common to both: cravings, which can defeat even the best-planned diets or recovery treatments. Obesity and addition are multifactorial, including genetics and many environmental variables.Addictions are directed towards not just substances, like food and chemicals, but also activities and technologies like gambling, shopping, pornography, the internet, smartphones, and social media.Drug addiction, particularly to opioids, has reached epidemic proportions. More than a third of Americans are clinically obese.Are the epidemics of obesity and addition an inevitable results of tastier food, strong drugs and other supernormal stimuli?.I have spoken at AHS in prior years on the principles of hormesis (beneficial low dose stress), the limitations of nutritional supplements, myopia reduction, and the benefits of living of high altitude.Retraining the limbic brain to overcome obesity and addiction Here is a slide-by-slide synopsis of the talk. It’s all about the brain processes that drive addiction and obesity - and how can we rewire those processes to regain control. I presented this talk at the Ancestral Health Symposium in San Diego on August 10, 2019.
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