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  1. C

    Woman Drinks 30 Colas A Day 950lbs of Sugar/Year And Looks Amazing (video

    She's been drinking 30 Colas a day for 15 years (plus 3 donuts! and shrimp) and looks healthier than any fruitarian. I estimate 5000 calories all together (4600 calories from cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup). The details may not be completely accurate, it's reality tv. View...
    • Clyde
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    • addiction coke cola comedy diet donuts intervention soda sugar woman
    • Replies: 40
    • Forum: Diet
  2. C

    Experts Warn About Gabapentin Neurontin aka "Johnnys" Addiction (video)

    This is a really familiar pattern that RP talked about where old drugs becomes demonized in favor or newer ones that are often riskier. View: https://youtu.be/eTAzjEP6Fc8 It's funny bc for decades gabapentin/Neurontin has been the safe, off-label alternative for all the dangerous/addictive...
  3. haidut

    Blocking serotonin (5-HT) stops withdrawal symptoms in addicts

    The role of 5-HT and other stress mediators such as cortisol, adrenaline, estrogen, prolactin, histamine, etc has long been suspected in both "addiction" and the withdrawal symptoms seen in virtually all "addicts" upon abstinence. The anti-adrenaline (and anti-cortisol) drug clonidine has been...
    • haidut
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    • 5-ht addiction anxiety clonidine depression mianserin mirtazapine serotonin stress withdrawal
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  4. haidut

    Big Pharma - oral GABA doesn't work; Also Big Pharma - oral GABA works, can replace alcohol

    We are now living in an openly clown world, so I don't really expect many doctors to change their position based on contrarian evidence, but it is a stunning admission on behalf of medicine regardless. Namely, mainstream medicine and its partners in crime (often, literally) Big Pharma have spend...
    • haidut
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    • addiction alcohol alcoholism anxiety brain craving gaba oral
    • Replies: 36
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  5. Mauritio

    Lisuride facilitates delayed gratification by 5HT-2a antagonism; may be helpful for addiction

    A trait of highly successful people is to choose a bigger long-term reward over a smaller short-term reward. The ability control your emotions and impulses. A process known as delayed gratification. The study explains the issue, instant gratification, like this: "...the preference for an...
    • Mauritio
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    • 5ht2a 5ht2ar addiction delayed gratification impulsivity lisuride serotonin
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  6. haidut

    Pregnenolone (P5) blocks stress-induced anxiety, hypertension and cocaine cravings

    A great new study, and with humans too! As the study aptly demonstrates, the primary driver of cocaine cravings is likely stress and the anxiety it causes. This finding is another corroboration of the findings of the great Rat Park experiment/study on "addiction". In the study below, the...
    • haidut
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    • addiction anxiety cocaine cvd hypertension p5 pregnenolone stress
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  7. haidut

    Lowering adrenaline as effective as opioids for severe/chronic pain

    Most of my readers know about the raging opioid abuse epidemic in Western countries. What most people do not know is that the bulk of the epidemic is not in usage of illegal opioids such as fentanyl, but in legally prescribed opioids such as methadone, oxycontin, and even morphine. There are...
    • haidut
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    • addiction adrenaline chronic clonidine opioid pain rat park stress
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  8. haidut

    Gut bacteria overgrowth drives (cocaine) addiction; glycine can reverse it

    Yet another study highlighting the importance of the microbiome for our health, and suggesting again that there may be no such thing as truly beneficial bacteria. Any bacteria capable of colonizing our GI tract seems to be capable of causing pathology if it is allowed to proliferate without...
    • haidut
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    • addiction antibiotics brain cocaine gelatin glycine gut microbiome
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  9. NewACC

    Agmatine Is Wonder Drug (Endotoxins, Endorphins, Adrenaline, NO)

    As you can know agmatine is very interesting peaty chemical, but steel I want to show you some interesting and maybe less known articles Anti-endotoxin https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2923203/ "...agmatine treatment inhibited LPS-induced production of nitrates dose dependently. As...
    • NewACC
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    • addiction agmatine alcohol addiction depression endorphins endotoxin lithium nitric oxide opioids
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  10. haidut

    Progesterone may help quitting smoking

    A very interesting article, on a topic that has been studied for decades but has not seen much mainstream media exposure mostly because it does not fit the narrative. Namely, that "addictions", including smoking, are mostly genetically determined and not much can be done about them except manage...
    • haidut
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    • addiction cholinergic depression estrogen nicotine progesterone smoking
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  11. haidut

    Estrogen promotes, progesterone inhibits drug (cocaine) abuse

    An interesting study, which not only exposes yet another negative side of estrogen but also demonstrates the opposing actions estrogen and progesterone have on the brain. The former is excitatory (by activating the glutamate system and inhibiting the GABA system) while the latter does the exact...
    • haidut
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    • addiction cocaine drugs estrogen gaba glutamate progesterone
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  12. haidut

    Maternal SSRI/SNRI use leads to offspring addiction/withdrawal

    After being told for decades that SSRI/SNRI drugs are safe for usage during pregnancy, now the truth finally starts to come out. Well, technically it has been out for a long time considering the skyrocketing autism rates and the strong causal link between serotonin and autism. However, up until...
    • haidut
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    • 5-ht addiction pregnancy serotonin snri ssri withdrawal
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  13. md_a

    Method and apparatus for carbon dioxide therapy (CDT) of addictons

    Abstract: Method and apparatus for a non-addictive therapy for addiction, includng heroin, methadone and alcohol; the patient briefly breathes heated gas containing 79-80% carbon dioxide delivered through a face mask not touching the patient's face, treatments for several weeks or less sufficing...
  14. T

    Is lavender essential oil addictive?

    Is lavender essential oil addictive? My friend says any sedative, the body adjusts to, making it addictive. Is this true? Thank you
  15. haidut

    Most People Recover From "addiction" On Their Own

    We have discussed the issue of "addiction" many times on this forum. Starting with the "Rat Park" experiment in the 1970s, there have been numerous studies showing that "addiction" is nothing but a desperate attempt at self medication as a way to limit the effects of chronic stress. Addiction...
    • haidut
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    • addiction cortisol disease dopamine independent recovery self-control stress treatment
    • Replies: 28
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  16. haidut

    Cancer Is NOT Addicted To Glucose, As Previously Thought

    Little by little, the lies about cancer told for over 100 years start to fall apart. One of the last strongholds of the "traditional" view on cancer is that it is "addicted" to glucose and eating a high-carb diet fuels tumor growth. Evidence to the contrary has actually been available for...
    • haidut
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    • addiction cachexia cancer glucose glutamine growth sugar tumor
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  17. haidut

    Cancer Cells Develop "addiction" To Treatment; Stopping It Is Therapeutic

    This is the sad state the medical profession has reached. Over the last 5-7 years a number of studies have found that in many conditions stopping the active treatment actually improves the health of the person. This has been noted in a number of conditions, especially "autoimmune" ones (i.e. RA...
    • haidut
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    • addiction cancer cells chemotherapy growth stop therapeutic withdrawal
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  18. haidut

    Cocaine "addiction" May Be Driven By Serotonin

    Another study on addiction and its mechanisms, but this one focuses on cocaine which is the second most highly abused drug after alcohol, at least in the US (excluding weed). This new study shows that blocking the serotonin receptor 7 (5-HT7) blocked the cocaine abuse behavior. This would...
    • haidut
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    • 5-ht7 abuse addiction antibiotics charcoal cocaine cyproheptadine metergoline serotonin
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  19. haidut

    Loneliness Increases Alcohol Tolerance, May Explain "addiction"

    I posted several studies in the past about the connection between stress hormones and "addiction", especially alcohol. This new study adds more evidence to that link and now also draws serotonin in the picture. Apparently, social creatures are much more sensitive to inebriation effects of...
    • haidut
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    • addiction alcohol gaba gregarious isolation loneliness serotonin social isolation stress tolerance
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  20. haidut

    Stress Leads To Lower Dopamine And More Drinking

    The study was really on alcohol consumption what affects it. It has been known since the 1960s that people drink more when under stress but to this day mainstream medicine denies that there is a causative link between stress and substance abuse. I posted a few studies showing that "addicts" have...
    • haidut
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    • addiction alcohol alcoholism cortisol crh dopamine drinking ethanol gaba glucocorticoid pregnenolone
    • Replies: 64
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
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