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🧀 Love Cheese? Or Are You Just Addicted to the High? Ever wonder why it’s so hard to give up cheese? It’s not just the taste — it’s the Casomorphins, a compound in dairy that acts like morphine, binding to receptors in your brain and giving you a mild high. One patient told me, “I could give up wheat, but I love my cheese!” And that’s exactly it — it’s not the cheese itself; it’s the dopamine rush it triggers. But here’s the reality: That short-lived “high” could be costing you big in the long