Does Alcohol Really Taste Good and Feel Pleasurable? (E84)
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Gill discusses if alcohol actually tastes good and feels good for us. You’ll learn about why we perceive alcohol as pleasurable, a bit about taste genetics, and how the way alcohol tastes for you can influence how much you drink. She has an interesting study to share with you about how the pleasure you feel from alcohol affects how much you drink, and if we develop a tolerance to pleasure making us require more alcohol to get the same effect.
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Sources
Andrea King, Ashley Vena, Deborah S. Hasin, Harriet deWit, Sean J. O’Connor, Dingcai Cao. Subjective Responses to Alcohol in the Development and Maintenance of Alcohol Use Disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
Penn State. "Alcohol consumption influenced by genes, research shows." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 24 September 2014.
Allen AL, McGeary JE, Hayes JE. 2014. Polymorphisms in TRPV1 and TAS2Rs associate with sensations from sampled ethanol. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. 38(10):2550-2560. Epub 25 Sept 2014.
Ong, JS., Hwang, LD., Zhong, V.W. et al. Understanding the role of bitter taste perception in coffee, tea and alcohol consumption through Mendelian randomization. Sci Rep 8, 16414 (2018)
Cite this episode
Tietz, G. Episode 84: Does Alcohol Really Taste Good and Feel Pleasurable? Sober Powered. 2022.
