Have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to stop eating foods like bread, cheese, pizza, or ice cream—even when you’re full?
It’s not just habit, taste, or lack of willpower. The answer lies in opioid peptides—powerful food-derived compounds that hijack your brain, override your body’s natural signals, and leave you craving more.
🧠 What Are Opioid Peptides?
Opioid peptides are drug-like substances that are released during digestion from certain food proteins. The most well-known are:
- Gliadorphin (also called gluteomorphin), from gliadin, a component of gluten in wheat
- Casomorphin, from casein, the primary protein in dairy
- Less potent variants also come from corn (zein), soy, and even spinach (rubiscolin)—but wheat and dairy are by far the most powerful and problematic
These peptides bind to the same opioid receptors in the brain that respond to drugs like morphine and heroin. The result? A flood of dopamine in your brain’s reward center. You feel comforted, relaxed, and emotionally “numbed” for a while—and your body wants more.
🍕 How They Lead to Overeating
These opioid peptides interfere with the body’s finely tuned hunger and satiety system in multiple ways:
1. They Hijack the Reward System
- Foods containing gliadorphins and casomorphins stimulate dopamine release, producing pleasure and comfort.
- This reward response becomes addictive, causing cravings that have nothing to do with true hunger.
- The more you eat these foods, the more your body associates them with emotional relief.
2. They Block Satiety Signals
- Normally, when you eat enough, hormones like leptin and cholecystokinin (CCK) tell your brain you’re full.
- Opioid peptides dampen these messages, allowing you to continue eating well past the point of biological need.
3. They Promote Emotional Eating
- Because they produce a sense of calm and pleasure, these foods are often used to self-soothe.
- Bread, cheese, and pasta become emotional crutches, eaten not for nourishment, but to numb stress or sadness.
4. They Disrupt Digestion
- From a physiological standpoint, these proteins are difficult to digest and unnatural to our frugivorous bodies.
- The incomplete digestion produces these opioid byproducts, creating a vicious cycle of enervation, toxicity, and craving.
🧬 The Worst Offenders
These foods combine opioid peptides with high fat, salt, and sugar, making them neurologically irresistible:
- Pizza (gluten + casein + fat + salt = addiction formula)
- Mac & cheese
- Cheese sandwiches and burgers
- Ice cream
- Pasta with cheese or cream sauce
They don’t just taste good—they chemically manipulate your brain.
🍃 Natural Hygiene Perspective: Why This Matters
According to the science of Natural Hygiene, the human body is designed to be guided by clean, honest biological signals. True hunger is felt in the throat, not the stomach. True satisfaction is light, energizing, and requires no stimulant.
Opioid peptides disrupt these signals by:
- Creating false hunger
- Overriding satiety
- Causing emotional dependence on food
- Enervating the system and leading to toxemia
- Fueling disease and dysfunction through chronic overeating and wrong food choices
Overeating is not just a behavioral problem—it’s often the result of being stimulated by foreign substances that never belonged in the human diet to begin with.
🍇 What Doesn’t Contain Opioid Peptides?
✅ Fruits
✅ Tender leafy greens
✅ Raw, properly combined plant foods
These foods:
- Do not produce opioid peptides
- Restore true hunger and natural satiety
- Don’t stimulate or sedate the nervous system
- Leave the mind clear, the emotions balanced, and the body energized
🌱 The Takeaway
If you’ve struggled with overeating, cravings, or emotional eating, the solution isn’t in self-control—it’s in removing the stimulants.
Wheat, dairy, and processed foods hijack your body’s natural intelligence. When you return to the Natural Human Diet, your cravings fade, your portions regulate naturally, and food becomes nourishment, not a drug.
Ready to make changes but not sure how to begin? Need some motivation or accountability? Why not join our 30-Day Natural Human Diet Support and Education Group? New Groups start on the 1st of every month! https://www.therawkey.com/the-natural-diet-support-group/
Have more questions? Want to get answers about your specific health issues or concerns? I offer consultations, learn more about them here: https://www.therawkey.com/consultations/
Eat fruit and be well my friends.
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