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Are Certain Foods Addictive? – A reply. (2014)

Front Psychiatry. 2014 Apr 7;5:38. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00038. Adrian Meule1,2,* In a recent article (1), Dr. Rippe highlights that lifestyle medicine practitioners need to ground their recommendations on sound scientific evidence and that this is complicated by the fact that scientific information is often distorted and conjecture is sometimes confused with proof. This includes, for example, […]

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Food cravings, appetite, and snack-food consumption in response to a psychomotor stimulant drug: the moderating effect of “food-addiction” (2014)

Front. Psychol., 08 May 2014 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00403   Caroline Davis1*, Robert D. Levitan2, Allan S. Kaplan2, James L. Kennedy2 and Jacqueline C. Carter3 1Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada 2Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada 3Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada There is […]

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Age 26 – ED nearly gone, I am a much more happy and confident person

It just… feels like me! It’s strange. This whole journey has produced a growth in me so steady and so gradual, that it actually requires great effort to precisely denote the changes. The changes have been occurring in several more areas than just sex-related. Furthermore, the changes are constant and will continue long after this […]

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Age 22 – You don’t know what you’ve been missing until you have it for the first time.

And what I’ve been missing was simply, my soul. Years of PMO have stripped me of who I am. Leaving behind an empty shell running on autopilot thinking about nothing but the next “fix”. I was a ghost chasing shadows, wondering why everything felt so unreal, wondering what was wrong with the world and when […]

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Age 26 – Gay. Increased confidence, little to no anxiety anymore, which is something I’ve had my entire life.

26 year-old gay guy here. After a few good streaks, at the end of December, I told myself I would take it day by day and join the 2014 challenge. Well, it was extremely challenging but I made it to 90 days (no PMO – still MO). There were a lot of mood swings, feelings […]

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1 year – Major paradigm shift, improved erections, relationships, energy, & mental stability

Aside from the ego boost, I wanted to post this to point out that it takes everyone different amounts of time to make it far in this challenge. I just today completed my first 100 days hardmode, no fantasy, no MO streak, along with cold showers for about 4-5 months (which has been going on […]

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Exercise Can Erase Memories

New neurons (white) integrating into hippocampus.JASON SNYDER Adult mice that exercised on a running wheel after experiencing an event were more likely than their inactive mates to forget the experience, according to a paper from researchers at the University of Toronto, published in Science today (May 8). The results suggest that the production of new […]

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