What Makes Chocolate So Addictive?
Chocolate Targets The Same Spot In Your Brain As Heroin Chocolate is an addictive substance – many of us know this but we still feel weak and guilty because we can’t give it up. Hopefully the information below will allow you to see that it isn’t as simple as it first appears. Chocolate targets the same spot on your brain as heroin and morphine. Although chocolate doesn’t affect you as strongly as heroin, it still affects your brain and you can still become addictive as you may well know. On top of having opiate properties, chocolate also contains caffeine, theobromine (a strong stimulant similar to caffeine that affects the nervous system, particularly the heart), phenylethylamine (an amphetamine-like substance) and also traces of compounds similar to THC (the active ingredient in Marijuana). So as you can see chocolate is full of addictive properties. But chocolate also contains sugar, milk and dairy products which also have highly addictive properties. Chocolate can also, of course,
