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> Everyone knows that sugar is bad for you I'm sure they do, but that's the logic that has led to all manner of ill-advised diets. Too much sugar, especially refined sugar, is bad for you. You need sugar in your diet for quick-burning energy. Avoiding all sugar and only eating proteins is going to leave you lethargic and unmotivated as shit because protein requires more calories than carbs to break down. You may as w…
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "amphetamines permanently ruin your ability to self correct"? In what way?
Basically after prolonged stimulant [ab]use, your brain stops "caring" about natural rewards because they're so insubstantial in comparison to synthetic ones. Like a captive-bred animal, your brain no longer appreciates its own procurement of rewards because it has been trained to be hand-fed cocaine-battered filet mignon.
I'm not a psychiatrist or neuroscientist so my understanding is limited and based on anecdote and experience, but I've never met a career meth-or-coke-abuser who found happiness in anything once they went sober. The cravings never go away; they literally need the drugs just to feel anything more than melancholy and they are always irritable and underwhelmed without them.
There is some argument over whether dopamine receptors repair themselves; I don't know if this is true, but if not that then there is something else permanently lost to amphetamine usage.