Article by Nore Hoogstad, FNTP
The relationship between food addiction and dopamine is complex.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter (messenger) that motivates us and helps us feel pleasure. It’s involved in reward, our ‘feel-good’ neurotransmitter.
How Food and Dopamine are Connected
Impulse Control and Decision Making
Dopamine is also involved in impulse control and decision making. Changes in dopamine signalling can affect someone’s ability to resist the urge to consume highly rewarding foods, contributing to difficulties in managing food intake.
I’m not a food addiction expert, but I know about neurotransmitters and can help you find ways manage food and dopamine.
This might involve mindfulness, nutrition education, coaching, removing subconscious blocks, a gradual withdrawal plan, regular exercise, replacement strategies.
Nore is the founder of Gutsy by Nutrition, and is a writer and Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner with an interest in complex illnesses and emotional issues. Nore helps people return to health and live the life they were meant to live using personalisd science-based programs and minset.