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'Compass Of Pleasure': Why Some Things Feel So Good

"There are variants in genes that turn down the function of dopamine signaling within the pleasure circuit," Linden explains. For people who carry these gene variants, their muted dopamine systems lead to blunted pleasure circuits, which in turn affects their pleasure-seeking activities, he says.

While most people are able to achieve a certain degree of pleasure with only moderate indulgence, those with blunted dopamine systems are driven to overdo it. Linden explains, "In order to get to that same set point of pleasure that others would get to easily — maybe with two drinks at the bar and a laugh with friends — you need six drinks at the bar to get the same thing."

Understanding the biology of the pleasure circuit helps us better understand and treat addiction, Linden says. It is important to realize that our pleasure circuits are the result of a combination of genetics, stress and life experience, beginning as early as the womb.

"Any one of us could be an addict at any time," Linden says. "Addiction is not fundamentally a moral failing — it's not a disease of weak-willed losers. When you look at the biology, the only model of addiction that makes sense is a disease-based model, and the only attitude towards addicts that makes sense is one of compassion."

Though it may be hard to be compassionate when addiction is used to justify inappropriate behavior, Linden argues that true addicts aren't just resorting to vices because of desire. Rather than seeking pleasure, addicts are fulfilling a need. The case of sex addiction illustrates how this distinction can be confusing.

"Most people are understandably very suspicious of the whole notion of sex addiction," Linden says. "They think this is something that philandering celebrities and their publicists make up as some way of excusing their anti-social behavior.

"The truth is that just liking sex a lot doesn't make you a sex addict, and just cheating or engaging with prostitutes or other anti-social behavior doesn't make you a sex addict. If you are a sex addict, just like a heroin addict ... you are at the point where you are having sex not because you are deriving pleasure from it, but because you need to do that just to fall asleep at night and face the day, and not have withdrawal symptoms."

So while true sex addiction is rare, Linden says, it is one of many very real addictions that stem from the way the human brain feels — or doesn't feel — pleasure.

Does LOW DOPAMINE lead to the extinction of the human as a species ...

For the human soul, it’s the effects of emotion that causes the Viper to unleash itself from the base of the spine; when a human soul sees red. What makes a soul become hot with anger? Inflamed with Passion? Stop Dead in their tracks with Fear! This is what the seven adjutant mind-spirits influence the brain, to direct as the body’s behaviour. Spirits are colours. Six students on earth and one master from heaven. ” the brain becomes inactive. There are no natural electrical sparks firing within the brain. The human has willed that his adjutant mind-spirits receive instructions from the Universal Father;( who’s just another sun. Even Jesus stated that “He is the Salt of the Earth”; a Son of God.) The soul purpose of iodized salt is to dehydrate the cells of the body; to enable overwriting the white crystals with black crystals. What is the origin of a thought? In simple physics, the YX will always be identified as the spark and its the continual coming together of multiple Y&X’s creates multiple thoughts; or epiphanies. Epiphanies is a sudden revelation, a manifestation of a supernatural being. It’s a chemical reaction of the YX that becomes a thoughtform. Those thoughtforms is the stuff that evolution is made of. One million years ago; the five spirits were functioning well within the primates, but suddenly, two primates left their parents to become the first humans on earth; the 6th and 7th spirit had been enabled to influence their brain, and they behaved accordingly. Here was another Y&X; an epiphany. They began expressing their thoughts to each other; and promptly decided to leave their parents and travel up north. Take away the sight, sound and understanding (overwrite the universal soundwaves with brainwaves) and we have the current syndrome of “brain damage” that is caused by iodine deficiency; low dopamine is merely the signal to the humans about their possible extinction…. The main purpose of such high doses of salt in processed food is to protect the humans; to prevent their freedom from extinction.

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