date:Aug 31, 2018
is responsible for its mood-altering effects. That's not to say chocolate will produce the same high as marijuana, but there may be a chemical basis for the pleasure we get from eating chocolate.
According to Gary Wenk, director of neuroscience undergraduate programs at the Ohio State University and author of Your Brain on Food, high-fat, sugar-rich cookies will raise the level of anandamide in our brains independent of what's in the cookie, because it's our body's response to eating such a tas