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Incidentally there are some studies with rats showing that sugar/sweet addicted + cocaine addicted rats prefer their sugar hit over their cocaine hit, and plain sugar-addicted rats when removed from sugar/sweet had opiate-withdrawal like symptoms.

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I guess I will need to get this sorted out sooner rather than later then.

Eating sweets does improve mood. There are several known mechanisms. e.g., carbs facilitate amino acid transport across the blood-brain barrier [1], and wheat stimulates endogenous opiate receptors [2]. But, if you want to influence brain chemistry therapeutically, eating sweets is probably not the best approach. Good luck!

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3527063 [2] http://www.heartscanblog.org/2011/01/heroine-oxycontin-and-w...

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