Converging evidence from both animal and human studies have implicated hedonic eating
as a driver of both binge eating and obesity. The construct of food addiction has been used …

The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of hormetic nutrition for enhancing stress
resilience and overall human health have received much attention. Recently, the gut–brain …

Functional neuroimaging studies in obesity have identified alterations in the connectivity
within the reward network leading to decreased homeostatic control of ingestive behavior …

It is predicted that by 2030, globally, an estimated 2.16 billion adults will be overweight, and
1.12 billion will be obese. This study examined genetic data regarding Reward Deficiency …

Since 1990, when our laboratory published the association of the DRD2 Taq A1 allele and
severe alcoholism in JAMA, there has been an explosion of genetic candidate association …

Food addiction is associated with dysfunctions in the reward circuit, such as
hyperresponsiveness during the exposure to high-calorie flavors in overweight and obese …

This article describes a unique therapeutic precision intervention, a formulation of
enkephalinase inhibitors, enkephalin, and dopamine-releasing neuronutrients, to induce …

This study analyzed genetic risk assessments in patients undergoing bariatric surgery to
serve as a predictive factor for weight loss parameters 1 year after the operation. Thirty (30) …

Background In psychedelic therapy, the importance of set and setting is a fundamental but
under-researched assumption. The aim of this study is to correlate variables of set …

Nicotine usage by mothers throughout pregnancy has been observed to relate to numerous
deleterious effects in children, especially relating to obesity. Children who have prenatally …