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As I understand it, it's something that spans multiple disciplines: nutritional neuroscience, appetite regulation, stress physiology, food anthropology... ...and I'm just... a weird person.. who now understands WHY some people put tomato sauce on EVERYTHING. but uh, here's some... um... existing literature... thank you for coming to my ted talk Hepsomali et al. (2024). Adherence to unhealthy diets is associated with altered frontal GABA and glutamate concentrations. Nutritional Neuroscience. [The circular diet-GABA relationship] Delgado (2013). Glutamate and GABA in Appetite Regulation. Frontiers in Endocrinology. PMC3744050. [GABA/glutamate dominate hypothalamic appetite circuits] Wurtman & Wurtman (1995). Brain serotonin, carbohydrate-craving, obesity and depression. Obesity Research. [The carbohydrate-serotonin parallel — structural template for the umami-GABA argument] Boecker et al. (2010). The Runner's High: Opioidergic Mechanisms in the Human Brain. Cerebral Cortex. [Established precedent for exercise as neurobiological self-medication] Lee et al. (2023). GABA tone regulation and its cognitive functions. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. [Tonic GABAergic inhibition — the baseline being disrupted by stress] Moss, M. (2013). Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. [Bliss point research — the exploitation architecture, lay-accessible]