(and sugar, but I’m not writing about that today.)

If I eat a meal without cheese, I still crave cheese. According to the internet, it’s because my “leaky gut” lets lactose peptides through directly to my brain:

“Both casein in dairy, and gluten in wheat, contain food peptide opioids which, in people with certain, ( “leaky”, as a result of chronic auto-immmune reactions to foods, candida infection, etc ), gut conditions, can pass directly to the brain. They can have a mild to strong euphoric effect, to which become addicted, but after years of “use” can become depression/alienation, etc. Short term effects can include brain-fog, spaced-outness, etc.”

-Ouinon @ wrongplanet.net

When I’m done writing today, you can bet I’ll be looking this up in some legitimate medical journals. Until then, I’m going to start on step 1: admit that I have an addiction that I cannot seem to control and that I have allowed this addiction to take over my life diet.

Tally, ho.