If ultra processed foods are doing this to your brain what are they doing to your gut microbiota?

How are they hijacking your metabolism?

I mean, if you think about it, there’s an entire industry of food sciences that are strictly devoted to ensuring that you never get tired of eating your favorite junk food.

The model and balance your biological responses to the foods they sell that you consume to prevent your satiation centers from triggering so that you never get tired of eating Snickers bars and Doritos and drinking sugared sodas.

That way, you can eat all you want, get as fat as you possibly can, develop health issues, deplete your bank account, and then die before becoming a drain on Medicare and social security.

And pricing has worked it out so that only the moderately wealthy and above can afford to eat healthy food that does not do this to you.

And if you read how some of the fertilizers and chemical adulterants they are using to increase crop yields are causing the cell structures of plants to change so that even if you ate only food that you cook to yourself you would still be exposed to these chemicals, it gets really fucking scary.

I know this whole thing is about brain health but it doesn’t just stop there.

And it wouldn’t be so bad if it were just one person doing it. I mean if it were just Snickers bars, everyone would just say well that’s what you get for eating a Snickers bar, but as of right now the only way to eat healthy is to either spend a lot of money or to grow and harvest your food yourself, both of which are highly unsustainable in a world of wage stagnation and corporate profit prioritization.

I don’t have a solution for this and I don’t know anyone that does.