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I think I'm addicted to coco powder.
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(03-20-2011, 06:57 AM)Mous Wrote: Well, cocaine causes your brain to produce high levels of dopamine,
which is partially the cause for the energetic feeling. So, what you're
saying is, a chemical in your body the does such a thing is only ALLUDING to actually having an increase in function?

That doesn't seem right. Dopamine may not be sugar, but that *is* a form of
energy that the body can use. Funny thing is, chocolate causes the same effect. (hence the happy feeling, and term "Chocoholic").

I'm pretty sure you're just trying to justify the use of chocolate over
cocaine. I'm pretty sure cocaine is derived from the cocoa plant, by the way.

Sir, Dopamine is a substance in your brain that signals the activity of your sympathetic or "fight or flight" nervous system which makes you more active, making you move a lot, using some energy. While chocolate can do a similar thing in a smaller scale, chocolate candy bars do contain sugar, which is a good source of excess energy (without being full, being full directs blood flow to the digestive system, decreasing the blood flow in our brain, making us a bit sleepy/lazy), thus making you quite active.

And sir, Cocaine, I believe, comes from "coca" leaves (what "coca-cola" is named after, they used cocaine a long time before), and chocolate comes from Cacao beans.

I may not have my bachelor's degree yet, but I currently am taking up Medical Technology. I'm not stating this to brag, but merely to say that what I said above is (more or less) quite legitimate, and is what is being taught to us students.
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I think I'm addicted to coco powder. - by DaBaws - 03-18-2011, 09:41 AM
RE: I think I'm addicted to coco powder. - by Mao - 03-20-2011, 05:54 AM
RE: I think I'm addicted to coco powder. - by Mao - 03-20-2011, 06:42 AM
RE: I think I'm addicted to coco powder. - by Mao - 03-20-2011, 06:52 AM
RE: I think I'm addicted to coco powder. - by Mao - 03-20-2011, 07:07 AM
RE: I think I'm addicted to coco powder. - by Mao - 03-20-2011, 07:23 AM

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