TL;DR – This field helps overcome addictions in addition to making life just overall better. Too good. 10/10, would mutate my brain again. Would recommend to anybody and everybody.
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Adding further support to the ‘Spirethion Max makes overcoming addiction easier’ fire…
I’ve been an emotional eater for most of my life. An ongoing joke in my family is that I don’t have ‘a sweet tooth’, I have ‘sweet teeth’ and it’s all of them.
My lifestyle and diet is pretty healthy otherwise, but when the sun goes down, I just get to thinking, “Don’t I deserve just a little treat for working so hard today?” and then ‘somehow’ I eat a whole cheesecake.
Of course, for years, I’ve tried a lot of different things to try and overcome this impulse. As just one example, I’ve clocked probably a hundred hours or more with Diet on the Brain and while it’s marginally improved my non-binge eating… I was already not having a problem with that. I was getting nowhere on my sundown dessert problem, but knew the problem was just somewhere else.
This field was a missing key.
Previously when I ate – and I expect it’s similar for many un-mutated individuals – the first couple of bites of food hit really hard but then I’d get down to the serious business of cleaning my plate and I’d hardly taste it after that. That means that even a crazy delicious dessert would need more and more of it to ‘scratch the itch’. And ultimately, I’d be looking for that giant ‘OKAY, I’M FULL NOW’ response that accompanies physical distension of the stomach to decide I was done. Ugh.
This is no longer the case. I taste every single bite. Each bite tastes just as good as the first one, so the ‘itch’ gets scratched earlier. That’s true for not just desserts, but meals in general. Everything tastes phenomenal and complex and interesting. It means I’m slowing down in eating, it means I’m noticing the ‘okay, I’m full’ signals earlier. Meals are more mindful in general. It means that I get the big rush of sugar induced dopamine and then I’m okay stopping.
So yes, I’m enjoying food – and desserts! – more, but I’m not feeling the need to urge to keep stuffing my face. It’s like it’s taken the ‘addiction’ out of it, since there’s just no reason to ‘keep going’.
I was initially a little worried that the increased pleasure would increase the risk of addiction or worsen my dessert problem, but the ‘proof is in the pudding’ as they say. Now I only want to eat about 3 bites of that pudding before I’m done!
It hasn’t done all the work for me or anything. I’ve still got a lot of conditioning to overcome from a family that used to force me to ‘clean my plate’ and celebrated going up in belt sizes as a sign of growing maturity, but it’s for sure taken the ‘fangs’ out of the whole business by removing the mechanism of addiction itself.
There’s still more to do to unravel the rest of the addiction – the habits and the emotional impulse itself – but I feel more and more that the ‘addiction’ is more a matter of inertia than it is something that’s pulling or pushing me along in directions I don’t want to go. I feel like I’m ‘choosing’ now instead of being ‘compelled’.
All that to say, this field can be a big tool in your toolkit for improving your quality of life. Improving both the sensations of being alive while also muting the mechanisms that lead to addiction and other kinds of bad spirals – this is attacking the problems at both ends.
Just like @Moshiro says above, this in a sense helps to ‘equalize’ all kinds of stimulation, so everything is kind-of just more enjoyable – not just the stuff that releases a bunch of cheap and easy dopamine. With that equalization, stuff we ‘know’ to be less good for us becomes a lot less appealing all by itself.
Abstractly – If ‘Learning the Piano’ produces 6 Dopamine Response and ‘Eating a whole Cheesecake’ produces 6 Dopamine Response, the calculus has really changed, hasn’t it?
This field can absolutely be Life Changing with capital letters and it’s near the front of my ‘Recommendations for Anyone Who Buys Paid Fields’.