Listen—your taste buds are talking – Is Bitter Better?

Listen—your taste buds are talking – Is Bitter Better?

By Joan McDaniel                  

Bitter taste in Food

Addiction to sugar overpowered my ability to hear my taste buds or feel my own body

Sugar Addiction

I Regained Control of my Body and Health.

I Turned to Ayurvedic Alternate Medicine's Rule of Taste

As I regained control of my body and began to get well again, I slowly broke my sugar addiction. I had found that eating from the Standard American fat-free high calorie and high processed carb diet, you are eating processed sugar by the tons.  You may not even know it but you have a sugar addiction. When you eat sugar, it triggers production of your brain's natural opioids. Opioids are a key ingredient in the addiction process. Your brain essentially becomes addicted to stimulating the release of its own opioids as it would with morphine or heroin.  In many cases the addicted has been since childhood. 

I suddenly became very aware of my sense of taste. Previously the only taste I use to know was Sweet.  Oh maybe, I would eat a sour pickle or use vinegar on my occasional salad but all I knew was sweet.  That’s all I knew how to eat.  Was there anything else? If there was --- I DIDN’T LIKE IT ---

My sugar addiction was replaced with a craving for taste sensations

I also found in my research, ancient medicine tradition used taste as an aid for healing.  Our grandparents had special dishes or meals that would help to heal or “…keep you regular”. Maybe you too will remember an especially bitter dish your grandparents offered saying it would “help clean out the blood”?

Read my further research.