This Is Your Brain On Food | Compilation
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2021
- Food provides our bodies with the energy to go about our daily tasks, but we don't eat only for our physical health. Our brains are also deeply connected to our food.
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My friend's daughter realised she was the popular girl in school and with that came powers, so she made eating broccoli and fruit really popular and also reading science based books.
Based af
I used to not like the taste of Mountain Dew, because my brain understood it as a lemon-lime soda and was expecting it to taste like lemon-lime, and it did a very poor job of that. Then someone told me it is actually peach, white grape, and orange, and suddenly I liked it a lot better, because I wasn't trying to process it as a lemon-lime soda anymore.
There's more information in this comment than I initially believed.
@@sandasturner9529 ??
@@antispeedrun something about the power of suggestions
@@sandasturner9529 it's ok if you are confused, I am too
@@ashleelarsen2233 But I have got the "spirit"
Not being an American, the Pumpkin spice latte skit was so strange to watch... I never even had one, and it sure wouldn't be nostalgic for me. Plus, when she said how much sugar it contains, I was like "yeeew" rather than "yummy"; I have a sweet tooth, but that much sugar isn't sweet it's sickening !
"Make a cheap food seem tastier"
Salt usually has that covered
And fat
I hears that fat and salts food make the pleasure centre of the brain go crazy
@@habibayousef659 my anthropology professor had asked us what the difference between chocolate and good chocolate was: yummy, delicious fat.
Salt is one of the two spices the Army mess halls seemed to recognize. If it's too salty, add pepper. If there's too much pepper, add salt.
and sugar
And sugar and MSG cover the rest. :)
I was only listening to the segment about addictive cheese and did a double-take at the spelling on the screen when I thought the scientists named the painkilling element "queso-morphine".
me too!!
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I'll take two monterrey cheese morphine drips, please
so when your doing rails of cheese dust and on a cheddar drip while smoking gouda just tell haters "it's nacho business"
queso and caso are the same word, just spelled differently in Spanish and Latin.
Someone once told me they were depressed because of an undiagnosed B12 deficiency. When it was treated their depression just disappeared.
B12 deficiency is a huge deal. It can also be mistaken for iron defiency anemia.
This is what I want to study, not just gastro psychology, but gastrosociolgy and the effects of food on cultural biology! Most food companies already have a wide array of research on how food affects our behavior and how they can manipulate ingredients or advertising to make our brains believe we enjoy them more. There are so many valuable points in this video that deserve to be brought out into the mainstream and I for one am super happy that it is being discussed! Thanks!
Please study and help us all. I’m thankful for ambitious people such as your self 😌
Hypothesis: Ocean noise makes oysters taste saltier because we think of the ocean as a salty place
My gf often doesn't tell me what she has put in her cooking if she knows I won't like it, because I often don't realize and love it. Just knowing something you think you dislike is in a food can make you dislike it
SciShow: This Is Your Brain On Food
Zombie: But brain _is_ food.
Me a necromancer: Meats are friends not foods.
ZombieShow: your brain on brains.
@@VeganAncientDragonKnight
Young necromancer: Look mom, I made a new friend!
Mother: Don't play with your food.
If a zombie eats another zombies' brain, is that cannibalism? If a person eats a zombie brain is that revenge?
@@rue6695 these are the hard hitting questions we should be asking
I contest that Vitamin D does impact mental health. I had a SEVERE deficiency (single digits) and had to be on massive doses of Vitamin D. I'm still on quite large doses now because I'm still mildly deficient, but I went from completely suicidal to "I can deal with this".
No one is saying it doesn't help just that more studies need to be done on this specific vitamin and depression to come to say for sure.
Well, that's good. I'm glad you're doing better.
But anecdotal reports don't actually resolve the question. Strictly speaking, there could have been other things even in your case that you weren't paying as much attention to which contributed to your recovery.
But ... In your individual case, go with the correlation for now. Keep your vitamin D levels up.
Wow, me too! I knew my vitamin D levels were low but I didn’t know it would help my depression until my doctor had me take massive supplements. Thanks for helping me make that association.
oh me too. my vitamin D gets all out of wack in the winter, which makes me way less motivated. but i really really hate the hot weather and muggy atmosphere that comes with summer, so either i get bummed out but don’t feel like a dying pig, or i get motivated at the cost of maintaining a comfortable body temperature
I feel like an alien when I see people and studies talking about how much everyone loves sweet taste and all, while I never did, not even as a child, I've always been into sour and bitter taste
Ikr, sweet food is so boring, I prefer spicy and umami
I'm the same; I would eat cumquats straight off the tree as a small child
Y'all are lucky. I like salty+crunchy and sweet+creamy.
@@heatherswanson1664 what's umami?
@@josephalejandro9202 like a fermented oily meaty broth
Pumpkin spice-cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves are all species that have really good health benefits. I don’t do the latte but I do like pumpkins and pumpkin spice.
Why don't you provide links to the studies?
I put Heinz Ketchup on literally everything when I was a kid.
I wonder if my mom had a lot of sweet tomatoes while she was pregnant or something...
I don't know if other people experience the same thing, but this is something that I think about a lot.
I got COVID 2 times. The first time I didn't feel the taste of foods for a few days. And after I recovered my food preferences changed a lot. For example, I hated capers before. Now I just can't get enough of them. Also, a few dishes that I used to love just taste disgusting now (the smell and taste of some olives usually triggers a gag reflex in me, even though I used to like them a lot). I suspect that it is pretty common, but none of my friends had this kind of changes in their preferences.
I've known at least two cases! One of my friends used to LOVE cream cheese and sour cream. Then after having COVID, having lost her sense of smell and regained it, she found these foods gave her a repulsive experience. Cue heartbreak. It took 18 months for her taste and smell to go back to 'normal'.
Another lab tech who helped me at the doctor's said his experience with COVID left him EXTREMELY sensitive to salt. He and his girlfriend sometimes had to prepare their food separately because he was so sensitive to levels of salt that she couldn't even detect.
Hopefully you can enjoy olives again someday.
@@pluspiping I found this one kind of olives that still taste good) so it’s ok) and as for the taste coming back after a long time. My hairdresser says that her taste never went back to normal. It’s been 2 years now since she had Covid. I guess we are gonna find out more and more about such cases in the future.
I nearly starved from Gastroparesis a few years ago. It was very interesting how my mental health was affected.
I had to be tube fed TPN (in to my heart) for a few weeks, and now I am getting by with some regular food.
But it seems like only a matter of time until I need at least a nasojejunal tube.
What causes that? And how are you doing?
Also the whole thing with addiction is you start holding the addictive behavior as more important than necessities like eating or drinking. With cheese that doesn't really work because eating can't be more important than eating
The issue is food disorders. If you are eating cheese to an unhealthy amount it would be considered disordered eating. If you eat and buy cheese to the point that it begins to affect your life negatively (effecting your relationships, work, health negatively) then it can be considered an addiction.
Though I doubt this would be common enough to be studied large scale vs. A case study
B vitamins have always been an issue for me. I have a mutation on my MTHFR gene which makes it very hard for me to process B vitamins. I also have lots of mental health issues. Personally, since I have found this out, I have been able to supplement and make sure I get enough. I think it has helped play a role in making my mood more stable.
Sounds like a condition my mom has.
I’m sorry, don’t take this as me making light of your mental health, but I read that gene acronym as “motherfker” 😅😅
I hope you’re doing okay, a year after you wrote this.
Anecdotally re: in vitro taste influence, during my 1st pregnancy, i couldn't stand the smell of red meat, let alone the taste, so i ate a LOT of chicken and broccoli. The running joke was my kid was being baked in chicken and broccoli. He was 8 years old before anyone could get him to eat a steak, he preferred chicken over hamburger at fast foods and i NEVER struggled with him eating vegetables. He still prefers white meat to red, likes his cruciferous veggies, and he's 28. NOW HERE'S A QUESTION: is his preference because i couldn't stomach red meat during his gestation, or was my inability to stomach red meat because of his preference? Cuz i would think "man, i miss hamburgers" then smell it and 🤢🤢 yeah nope.
Yeah definitely the first one. The food you consume the most, that is what your child will develop cravings on. So it's like we teach our kids what to eat during the gestation phrase lol I hope this helps.
I think it could have been your child's preference. Maybe he didn't like it when you ate what he didn't like while pregnant. Interesting story.
@@marshallkili7774 really?
I had food cravings for hot and spicy things when I was pregnant, and my son (now 40) also loves spicy food.
Let's also not forget that folates are import for central nervous system development during pregnancy. A lack of this nutrient could also cause neurons to not develop properly later in life and cause damage to existing neurons causing them to act up. This could be a factor in why folates are correlated with metal health problems.
Edit: Thanks to Cassie Oz for mentioning this. Folic acid in supplements is not very useful to the body as it is metabolized incredibly slowly. Folates from natural sources are united far easier by the body. I think spinach has them, but take that with a grain of salt.
Foliate Vs folic acid
@@cassieoz1702 folic acid is not well metabolized in the human body into anything usable. I recommend natural folates because the human body is better at utilizing those folates.
@@popoffs5273 I. Know. That. But a lot of folks don't so I think that it's worth mentioning rather than speakers glossing over
@@cassieoz1702 ok yeah ill edit the post to include this, thanks.
sadly we have a severe lack of people interested in eating raw/whole foods.
sometimes i feel weird for wanting to know how to cook and use cheaper raw ingredients over packed and ready to eat when i have time do cook and prep.
Thanks for the compiled videos. There were some videos I haven't watched because I didn't know you posted them. Please, keep them coming.
One thing I learned from this: Hank like corndogs
Fun to see the new look
You missed a great pun opportunity there by not calling the "quesomorphins"...
I'll see myself out.
God please I want to live in a world where going for a run feels like doing heroin. I'm so lazy...
are the lack of vitamins and nutrients partly to blame for depression, or perhaps the inability to afford or access said nutrients? i know being poor sure makes me depressed
Why choose one? it's both
Btw You get stronger and so gets easier
I know being depressed made me less able/likely to cook, and more likely to rely on junk foods. Adding poverty into the mix made it worse bc then I couldn’t even afford healthier pre made foods or takeout, but I could still get a McDouble for 1.50
Being poor makes us all depressed fam.
I've had a clogged nose many times even to the point I could only breathe through my mouth but I've never had the experience of tastes becoming blander. I don't know if this could be because autism but I've never noticed this
On the note of neurogastronomy, I wonder if any of those papers looked into any correlation between experiential taste and the subject's age. I would assume it's largely a learned sense from previous experiences.
When I was pregnant my lunch usually consisted of peanut butter and Jelly or a burrito, an apple and a slim fast. I ate granola bars on my break. She has always been a picky eater except for peanut butter and jelly, chimichangas, apples and apple juice, but not cooked apples, Slim fast and granola bars. The thing that gave me morning sickness was a cereal with Cinnamon and even though I am all about the flavor she will not eat it.
getting kids to like broccoli is super easy. just tell them it's a little tree and they're a dinosaur
That worked for me as a kid! Little trees!
And honestly a dip in some barbecue sauce didn't hurt, either, haha
I do agree that what you eat while pregnant still affects the children's taste in food after birth. 3 pregnancies had, the third child I quit chocolate so I didn't eat it at all. and to this day. They hate chocolate.
I’m digging this new visual style! Congratulations to everyone involved! :)
Why do I keep looking in my freezer when I'm looking for my keys or my glasses? I've never actually found them there, but still, I repeatedly open the freezer in my search.
I'm the oldest of three, and I was the only one who wasn't a picky eater as a kid. Turns out, that backfired on me a bit 'cause now I associate food with feeling a little bit less depressed, while they both seem to have a relatively normal relationship with food.
Really appreciate these longer compilation videos! Esp. great for listening with headphones when doing things like cleaning where phone can't be constantly to hand. Seeing the links between the various inter-connected research topics is great too.
My mother swears that her need for vinegar and specifically pickles caused me to hate pickles and vinegar in general. Which still holds true lol
Except vinegar salt chips, those are good. 🤷♀️
I love the new look! Very cool
I really like coffee but never ever had a pumpkin spice latte, I also occasionally ate pumpkin disheses for dinner, whether it's autumn during or not..
That time I was this early to something, I was being born
*last
Hey, me too! Scared me off being early for life, and I've been late to everything else ever since! Unless being on time or early was on accident, like now. : )
The last time my parents were this late to something I was being born
I was even late for that…my mom was induced when I was 15 days late and not showing signs of moving.
That whole segment about Pumpkin spice latte made me want to try it, but sadly it is not produced in Argentina.
En algunos Starbucks en CABA tienen, creo (te escribo desde Tucumán igual, no estoy segura) pero podrías acercarte a algún local a preguntar, sobre todo ahora en invierno!
@@valentinabestani3089 Me fijé en la página de Starbucks para Argentina y ni siquiera aparece el producto.
If you're ever REALLY curious, here is my homemade mix recipe I made. I may be American, but I am unable to drink coffee.
24tsp (100g) sugar
4tsp (10.5 to 11g) cinnamon
1/2 + 1/8 tsp (1.1g) ginger
1 + 1/8 tsp (2.6g) nutmeg
1/4 tsp (.5g) cloves
TOTAL: 30tsp (115.2g)
MAKES 8 SERVINGS
1 SERVING = 3.75tsp (14.4g)
Add 1 serving to 1 cup hot or steamed milk, give or take
You can strain out the spices before drinking if you want to, but I generally don't. And as other commenters have mentioned, it's a significant amount of sugar, but this is not nearly as much as a Starbucks latte. 😅
Hope you have an easy winter this year!
This is a topic you don’t really think about. Very interesting!
This explains why everyone craves Chik-fil-a on Sundays.
Lol true!
for the mouthfeel one, i think the “hard to identify pureed food” also has a lot to do with what we’re used to eating as puree. people probably could identify pureed apple because apple sauce is a very common food, but who eats lamb mush????
I have been validated😁🥳
Thank you scishow
I really wish that compilation videos would include the word "compilation" in the title.
I’m confused. But it does have “Compilation” in the title?
This just rekindled the feeling in me that everything is connected
Every kid after watching this video: I don't like vegetables because you gave me formula!
Hank bro when you put good nutrition in your body good things happen. You are so awesome for having this channel
No idea what a pumpkin spice latte is, but I strangely feel the need to conform and order one.
It is a latte with 'pumpkin spice' spice mix, which is usually vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, mace, and nutmeg. It is actually very good!
My brain learning about itself and telling me yes this makes sense is so meta like thanks for telling me this that I learned what happens to myself
Save me I’m lost
This helps. Thanks.
WOAH, i love the new intro !!
"Mouthfeel, which is how your mouth...feels..."
I like the word mouthfeel just for being a word that sounds so non-nuanced as to sound ancient that refers to something a lot more complex
”There's little evidence that we experience withdrawal symptoms from -any- type of food.”
No, not any specific food. Just food in general. Look at our hunger pangs and being hangry.
I'm not sure if they're going to touch on the reduced calorie study where the participants all started dreaming about food and talking about food instead of anything else.
That isn't really withdrawal as the body hasn't created a dependency on food because of continued use like drugs, but rather because the body needs food to continue operating.
@@popoffs5273 tomato / potato
My 30 water only fast was surprisingly enjoyable . I even became addicted to the euphoria after the first 3 days. Sure caffeine sugar carb withdrawals are like a hangover but the after math of the body changing it’s chemistry to fit it’s needs is so intriguing and the clarity I had was epic
I hate salmon... it tastes like ocean. Unless it’s in sushi and then it’s freaking AMAZING
When i consume extremely low calorie diet, after awhile i too dream about food and can't stop thinking about food even have not eaten. I go to grocery store and I must look starving because strangers offer to buy me food while I'm looking at it. I feel Embarrassed,how did they know I was hungry?????I thank them and say I have money but thank you.
The pumpkin spice thing is why the McRib is popular despite them being nasty.
Wine and tekillya have way more chemicals than alcohol these chemicals have different effects. Some it may not be in your head although mental state does have effects
Another note on the usefulness of supplements is that scientific studies are using supplements that they actually test to make sure they contain the nutrient at the correct dose. Many of the OTC supplements out there would not pass testing. Someone should probably regulate those supplements if we are going to be using them in medicine.
Im the odd one out. I never buy pumpkin spice anything....well, maybe pie for the holidays, but that's it.
Your right about mental health, people learn how to manipulate early on about the sugar thing I recall the "sugar study " it still amazes me how still folks believe that sugar causes hyperactivity still and acne oh yes the sales pitch, and seasonal items. available for a short time only the greatest sales pitch of all times or today only sales retail therapy I know someone who spends all hours doing just that and paying no attention to the stacks of bills that come in afterward the joys of entitlement.
To add to the pumpkin spice craze, I did extensive research on scents that attract men and the common ones were vanilla, lavender, cinnamon, etc.... but the top scent that is a combination of most of the scents was pumpkin pie. This scent gives off feelings of comfort, food, love, and now nostalgia, it makes sense why there is such a craze for pumpkin spice or pumpkin in general.
I really like the new look :)
Gonna go weight my cutlery!
Also, it’s funny the lady talking cheese looks so much like Brie (Larson) haha
One part of the episode: *Talking about adictivness pumpkin spice and it's wide-spread presence*
Me: Wtf is pumpkin spice? Why would you put it in oreo or coffee?!
I had my gall bladder removed a few weeks ago (it was infected), and I am now trying to make food without using more than a tiny amount of fat. (I found something in a Chinese cookbook about how to stir-fry a whole wok full of food in just two *TEASPOONS* of oil, and led me to steaming various foods (very useful technique).
pls talk about the intraoperative physiological monitoring of brain and the spinal cord
Dope drawings in the alcohol segment
I've never heard of that "late"😂...me so of😊
🤔 so...I have a special preference for 2 specific spiced rums because of the specific event I first tried them at and how I was feeling at the time....this is insanely interesting. . .actually my entire relationship with alcohol is interesting when I add the info from this video. Can't wait to tell my parents about this one 😅
9:10 the sugar industry is fuming
My mom walked in when Brit was talking about cocaine drug addiction to compare cheese addictive like behavior.. It was super awkward. Now she must think I'm doing drugs.. 🤯
His whistle @ 1:25 when he said fish. Pretty high whistle. Lol heads up
I literally yelled at the video... I know dark red wines are my bane, as the tannins are what trigger something from me. I think that falls to an allergine, but I can always be corrected.
"We rarely choose eating over more interesting activities like hanging with friends."
Um... I uh- yeah! I'd much rather feel pressure to be constantly interesting, funny and cheery than down a pint of triple chocolate ice cream.
0:16 Did he just called us all meatheads?
Sight and sound are extremely tightly related in many unconscious ways. In a TV video several years ago, they showed how deep this can be; it was scary!
First, they did some simple things: They showed that if you see a "talking head" move its mouth as if it was saying one sound and your ears were sent a somewhat similar but distinctly different sound, as long as you looked at the mouth you heard the sound it seamed to be saying, NOT the actual sound. If you closed your eyes, you heard the correct sound being played to your ears. You CANNOT override this! Nobody could stop this internal mind switch of the sounds as long as they were seeing the mouth move. This is how ventriloquists do their thing.
("Max Headroom" to the max!).
They then showed that this can also occur in a complete nonsense phrase, by having the mouth look like it is saying one nonsense phrase while your ears heard a different one. The first couple of times that they did this, it seemed just an extension of the single-sound tests above. No big deal, right? Then they dropped the mind-blowing H-bomb!! They came up with a new pair of nonsense phrases, seemingly no different from the first few that they just demonstrated, UNTIL THEY HAD THE MOUTH SAY ONE SPECIAL PHRASE AND YOUR EARS HEAR THE OTHER SPECIAL PHRASE: Instead of just swapping the phrases if you looked at the moving mouth, as previously occurred, if you looked at the moving mouth, you heard (at least if you knew English; I am not sure what would happen if you didn't) the ABSOLUTELY DISTINCT AND PRECISE ENGLISH PHRASE: "Hello. How are you?" I am not joking about how scary this was. Two complete nonsense phrase sounds when your eyes and ears heard them in the correct way turned into perfect English. Again, no matter what I did, if I looked at the mouth moving, I heard the English and if I closed my eyes I heard the sound nonsense phrase.
Can you imagine what this means as to encryption systems? The possibilities are near infinite about secret messages being displayed right in front of the enemy and he CANNOT EVER decipher them if he does not have the correct talking head display to look at when listening to the seemingly gibberish "static" on a radio signal, for example. Or a talking head being sent when the secret agent listens to a seemingly innocent vocal message. This is "X-Files" sci-fi-level stuff...
Would overconsumption of eggs during pregnancy result in an egg sensitivity later in life for the child, due to the taste of the amniotic fluid around the child changing?
I'm unsure, asking for a friend.
I.... go the the Goblin Slayer route of Cheese. If introduced to a new sapient individual, it is fat and protein and stable. Sure not great for the idle life, but if you're going around fighting that is ideal!
new sci psych show era
I'm sad and eating spaghetti while watching this...
It tastes less flavorful and more just like tomatoes. It's not great, despite how I used to love spaghetti and I've eaten so much.
Expected at least one fried egg bit, given the title.
Yeah, especially with SciShow Psych's penchant for comparing food to cocaine.
17:01 lmao that article on the newspaper is hilarious. I too, loved it when coworkers would bring cake to the office🥹
I hate pumpkin spice lattes and my sister loves them. Might be because I like black, bitter coffee.
Girl with a pumpkin spice we got to talk about cinnamon and Ginger. If you take a little bit of sugar and add some cinnamon and ginger and touching nutmeg it is just straight comforting. Ginger cinnamon and Nutmeg are all amazing for you. Yes if you mix it up with sugar oh my goodness so good. So if you get toast and cream cheese and put that little bit of blend on that, you get all my goodness flavor that's comforting. All so big some pumpkin mix it up with an egg yolk and the spices a little bit of Carnation and bacon and you got yourself something good
It sounds like the amniotic fluid of Mediterranean peoples is nothing more than olive oil. 🤣
I think this woman is just trying to sell me pumpkin spice cake because i want some now good idea
When my mom was pregnant she loved potato chips with ketchup. My whole life I have never liked potato chips. I blame her for ruining them lol 😂
I can say that cravings in utero are a two way street. My son would not allow me to eat salmon. He still hates salmon to this day, twenty years later! My daughter refused to allow me in the meat department she's extremely adverse to meat. The little monkey's know what they like long before they arrive this side of the womb.
1:27 How can you distinguish between correlation and causation in such a study? People who eat healthily might tend to be less depressed, simply because they are fit and better looking.
Anyone who thinks you don’t get withdrawals from food has obviously never quit wheat. I call it the “Gluten Blues”. Quitting wheat can cause significant depressive feelings, but they do subside quickly (week or two )
Crispy stuff are also addicting
I wasn't looking at the screen when I first heard it, so I was imagining it spelled 'quesomorphine'
The psychological and sociilogical factors influencing how and what we eat are left entirely out of the training and practice of dieticians and nutritionists. Surely this is a major oversight, given how little that health profession has been able to do for diet-related public health crises like obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular illnesses.
We are hard-wired to crave and seek out sugar, fats, and salt - nutrients that are rare in the wild. This leads us to buy the foods that engineered to trigger those cravings - fast food, snacks, and sugary beverages. Eating sugar makes a person feel less depressed (basic rewards system). Also over-eating can trigger the rewards system - feeling full and satisfied and well-fed does increase feelings of well-being. (and prevents you from feeling "hangry")
There are a lot of savoury continental dishes of pasta with broccoli that will get the children eating their broccoli.
I'll never eat food again. Wow.
I know it's never gonna be allowed to happen, but I'd love to see a "You brain on directed energy weapons" video, as they're the biggest devastator of the population's minds nowadays. But not allowed to talk about the wifi, nope. Never.
I like the intro
The issue is not lack of folate or B12, it is that those who have mental health issues have MTHFR gene mutation.
And omega 3 supplements help because Americans eat so much omega 6 that the ratio is skewed to far and causes inflamation. So the issue is not only lack of omega 3 but an extreme over consumption of rancid omega 6 in the form of seed oils(canola, cotton, sunflower, soy, corn etc.). No one could ever get that amount of omega 6 in nature and this is a leading cause of the destruction of our physical and mental health. They finally admitted that hydrogenated oils are taking us and now they are being replaced by seed oils that are already toxic in the bottle and then we heat them once again.
“Queso-morphins”
Lol
That's why ads try to make it seem as though everyone else loves eating/drinking X.