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Will the sight or the smell of a carbohydrate, Nakyav ketosis?

The answer is, depends if you give into it, but no, the sight and smell will not spike insulin.

However, it potentially could stimulate dopamine.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter. It's similar to a hormone, but it works through the nervous

system in the brain. The effect that dopamine has is pleasure. It's the anticipation of a reward.

It creates more want. It's involved in lots of addictions. Now, if you happen to smell

chocolate chip cookies coming out of the oven, okay? You may start to stimulate dopamine.

Or how about that bread baking in the oven? The smell is actually incredible, isn't it?

Or what about the aroma of this amazing pizza that's being served to you at an Italian restaurant?

Or let's say, for example, you're smelling this Kentucky fried chicken and you're hungry, right?

You may start stimulating dopamine. And then you have the visual of it, right? Or this delicious

bread and butter that they just took out of the oven and they've served you before you're going

to eat your meal at the restaurant. Oh, and by the way, I'm really curious. Go ahead and type in

the comment section of that food that you cannot resist. Now, here's an interesting thing about

this on a study that I'm going to post down below. Dopamine was only increased, okay?

Upon exposure to certain smells or visuals, if it's exposed to someone that already has addictions

or has a way problem that's a binge eater. If you don't have addictions and you're not a binge

eater, guess what? Dopamine will not be spiked. And this is actually really good news because

when you start a ketogenic diet and you do intermittent fasting, the need for eating every

three hours disappears. And so even if someone waves some cookies in front of you or shows you

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