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Your brain rewards you twice per meal: When you eat and when food reaches your stomach

December 27, 2018 by

We know a good meal can stimulate the release of the feel-good hormone dopamine, and now a study in humans suggests that dopamine release in the brain occurs at two different times: at the time the food is first ingested and another once the food reaches the stomach.

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