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Beer's taste triggers dopamine release in brain
DNA ^ | Tuesday, Apri 16, 2013 | ANI

Posted on 04/20/2013 5:34:09 PM PDT by Jyotishi

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To: dfwgator
Well I get that at my first cup of morning coffee....love the smell as it's brewing!

My mom use to have her coffee and newspaper first thing...I have coffee and on-line news....guess it's inherited too!

41 posted on 04/20/2013 9:27:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

I don’t drink coffee. I inject it.

Seriously, I not only need coffee in the morning, but my own special blend & way of brewing it. I literally get sick without it — headaches, fatigue. After a good cup, all the pleasure centers in my brain light up — cognitive centers, too. I need it to think.


42 posted on 04/20/2013 9:59:28 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: MoochPooch

It’s a great wrap after work too! First thing I do in the door...feed Kitty Cat while brewing...the aroma fabulous....

However, have you ever run out? I did, couldn’t believe it...I actually ran “used “ coffee grounds thru the coffeemaker! Pretty nasty stuff second time around!

Now I keep some instant coffee on hand just in case...LOL!


43 posted on 04/20/2013 10:14:16 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

I ran out now. Sun. morning I’m making a beeline to Starbucks & buying a lb. of Kenya roast.


44 posted on 04/20/2013 10:15:34 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: MoochPooch

It’s a great wrap after work too! First thing I do in the door...feed Kitty Cat while brewing...the aroma fabulous....

However, have you ever run out? I did, couldn’t believe it...I actually ran “used “ coffee grounds thru the coffeemaker! Pretty nasty stuff second time around!

Now I keep some instant coffee on hand just in case...LOL!


45 posted on 04/20/2013 10:19:31 PM PDT by caww
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To: 5th MEB

“Well beer is very good stuff, but my preferred dopamine starter is a good single malt scotch whiskey straight up.”

Be careful. Beer Street vs Gin Lane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane


46 posted on 04/20/2013 10:30:03 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Jyotishi
Sorry Doc but this would only work on me if it was Beck's beer (or St Paulie Girl in a pinch). All American 'beer' tastes like pee (looks like it too) and that's not just my opinion(1).

Plus we put chemical additives in our 'beer' -- I get splitting migraines from one sip of American 'beer -- where in Germany that's against the law, just read the label on a Beck's beer bottle.

(1) Based on a Poll of all Germans who've come to the USA and tried to drink the swill we make here and call 'beer'.

47 posted on 04/21/2013 4:48:49 AM PDT by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Sherman Logan
Bet it wouldn’t work in somebody who’d never drunk beer before.

My thoughts too - the aroma of a cheeseburger makes me drool much like Pavlov's dogs did when hit with a stimulus that was tied to another stimulus...

48 posted on 04/21/2013 5:25:41 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Condor51; All

I like Beer from Britain, Belgium, and Germany.. I’m a beer snob....


49 posted on 04/21/2013 5:43:38 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Third Parties are for losers.)
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To: Jyotishi

I’m not worried. I drink Michelob Light (low carb), which from my reaction to it, contains no alcohol, regardless what’s listed on the label.


50 posted on 04/21/2013 7:48:17 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Jyotishi; KevinDavis; SunkenCiv

Beer was prescribed by physicians to ameliorate certain forms of tremor back in the day.


51 posted on 04/21/2013 8:32:59 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (I must b e all here, because everyone keeps telling me I'm not all there.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Beer does have interesting physiological effects. I read an abstract that described the stimulating effect of beer on gastrointestinal motility, the implication being that one can of cheap beer is less expensive than Miralax. The dopaminergic effect might explain why certain forms of tremor decrease w/administration of beer.


52 posted on 04/21/2013 8:38:26 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (I must b e all here, because everyone keeps telling me I'm not all there.)
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To: GreatRoad

American colonists were forbidden to drink more than half a gallon of beer at breakfast.


53 posted on 04/21/2013 8:39:40 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (I must b e all here, because everyone keeps telling me I'm not all there.)
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To: 5th MEB

I like good scotch, too. Also love martinis. But, being retired, I have a lot of time to drink.

Can’t seem to drink scotch, or martinis, for 6 hours. Too much dopamine?


54 posted on 04/21/2013 11:54:37 PM PDT by tdscpa
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To: Jyotishi

What can I say? Beer is proof that God loves us.


55 posted on 04/22/2013 5:53:21 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: MoochPooch
I literally get sick without it — headaches, fatigue.

Ah, an addict experiencing withdrawal symptoms. The body speaks! Give me caffeine!

56 posted on 06/08/2013 3:18:28 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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