Ingredients like sugar in food can light up the “feel good” center in your brain, the nucleus accumbens. If you’re not treating yourself to feel-good foods, your brain might be trying to compensate in other ways?
It’s a stress response.
They’ve also seen similar results in fasting rats. But getting rats to have sex is easy anyway and they make way too many babies, so ‘things that make rats horny’ isn’t studied much.
I feel this. It’s kinda ruined food for me because I realized If I’m ever full my libido goes to 0. But if I’m eating light/fasting it’s full force.
Haven’t been able to tell if it’s a body image thing or there’s actual science behind it