Thank you for your comments. All his research is in the back of the book mentioned. Don’t know which he used for that statement or if it was just from his own experience and/or that of his clients.

It’ll be interesting to hear what others have to stay. Stay tuned.

Revvell

I come from a unique point of view (well, sort of unique) because I have been detoxing cacao for several days and went through a really strong detox from coffee and another from Ritalin. I know that what I felt was a deficit after regularly consuming those substances. I would get flashes of joy and concentration when taking them, but then be confused, bewildered and less happy when they began to wear off, with a headache to boot. This was both physiological and psychological. I wouldn’t equate those things to being merely emotional or about perception.

I don’t know if cooked food falls into the “reward” category in the mesolimbic dopamine system as drugs do. I think the quote above, as a general statement about addiction, seems to be minimizing something profoundly more complicated than a shift in perception.

I’d be curious to read the research he used or the rationale beyond the snippet.