{"id":159,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"island-for-addicts-?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Island for Addicts ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Insula, an island for addicts ?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Insular Cortex appears to be a &quot;central command&rdquo; center that regulates the <a href=\"?p=923\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">immune system<\/span><\/a> and ensures that heart rate and blood pressure increase when needed. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"355\" height=\"180\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/junkfood.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">It reads body states such as fear, hunger and craving and pushes people to reach for the next sandwich, candy bar, can of beer, glass of wine, cigarette, cigar, snort of cocaine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/24\/magazine\/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;src=nrc.nl&amp;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Hi-sucrose foods, Hi-fat foods<\/span><\/a>, or food-bingeing. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Insular cortex research offers us new ways of thinking about treating most disorders. Perhaps, one new way could be to <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">treat the disorder, not the human being, as a 3 year old and tell it to <a href=\"?p=164\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">go into rehab<\/span><\/a> until cured?<\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><a href=\"?p=172\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"279\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/insula-addicts.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Insula, an island for addicts ? The Insular Cortex appears to be a &quot;central command&rdquo; center that regulates the immune system and ensures that heart rate and blood pressure increase when needed. 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