09/01/2025
I saw this photo circulating in FB.
I'd like to share this with you para magkaroon kayo ng understanding how these foods and habits are trying to mess up sa system natin.
Una, ang ating drive at motivation ay tightly regulated ng brain chemicals, one of which ay ang dopamine. Ang dopamine ay hindi lamang chemical for pleasure, ito ay chemical din na tumutulong sa atin to become motivated and identify things which are necessary for survival.
The reason why food, shelter, exercise, cohabitation, community, and procreation are pleasurable kasi these tiggers dopamine release and and this will signal our brain to identify them na necessary for life and existence. These helped our ancestor to find the drive in hunting, building shelter, participate in the community and procreate. The way these things and practices increases dopamine made our existence possible kasi our brain would install ways to always seek for them in order to keep the dopamine on a healthy level sa brain.
Nowadays, marami na pong mga bagay at practices that spikes our dopamine on a concentration beyond what we need. The bionengineered foods, social media, alcohol and ni****ne, even p**n and other dopamine stimulating substances and pracices. Pure sugar and refined foods, even syrups, na hindi naman natural because you can't harvest them in the wild, are stimulating excessive amount of dopamine. Overtime, we crave for more because the high dopamine concentration wont be enough to trigger the pleasure anymore. And this is also the reason why these are addicting kasi overtime, coz you will need higher dose in frequent consumption as you build tolerance.
When you spike your dopamine, you will lose the capability to KNOW ano na ang totoong necessary, dahil akala ng utak mo, ang mga bagay na ito na ang mas kailangan mo para mabuhay. Until mas i-crave mo na ang mga ito kaysa sa mga totoong necessity mo to survive. Kaya marami na mas gusto magsocmed nalang kapalit ng healthy communication at real socialization sa pamilya at kaibigan. Kumain ng fastfood, manufactured food, pure sugar at mga desserts, kaysa natural foods. And manood nalang ng streaming app kaysa magexercise.
As much as gusto ko pa ito ielaborate, alam ko na what i have written is enough to gve you overview of what these things do in our brain and in our life.
Ang tanong, are you gonna be slaves of the the modern day foods and activities?
At the end of the day, you must understand this:
As consumers, our addiction is the target of businesses. The more we get addicted to certain foods, stuffs, and activities, the more profittable it is for them. We are targetted sa weakness natin. At hanggat di natin ito narerecognize, we will remain the victim of these industries.
Your health partner,
Doc fi
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