Understanding & Acceptance are the first steps to recovery.
1. Cheese is “dairy crack”
Your brain reads casein, a protein that gets super concentrated during the cheese making process, as an addictive substance.
2. Cheese: more like morphine than you think!
Casein is no different from other proteins, in that it doesn’t break down completely. Segments of the Casein protein string are called casomorphins. These protein fragments can attach to the opiate receptors in your brain. As the name implies, casomorphins are casein-derived morphine-like compounds. And since morphine is an opioid, and heroin is an opioid, cheese is as bad as heroin. Ok, thats a slightly exaggeration as lives aren’t completely ruined by excess cheese consumption; nobody sells the sheets off his bed for an ounce of Gruyere. But still.
3. Your brain is built for cheese
The human brain evolved to thoroughly enjoy fat, especially fat combined with salt. Fat is a calorie-dense substance, which makes it attractive to a hunter-gatherer type always in need of efficient energy sources. In cheese, we get massive concentrations of fat and salt, which our highly evolved brains continue to love.
Now go into the world and own your illness. It’s not your fault you could see yourself doing terrible things for baked brie. Quit fighting the Dollar Slice urge – it’s innate and it’s out of your control. You actually have a mental disease. You’re a cheese addict.
Cheese Addiction is a thing