Drugs in the cocoa powder make chocolate addicting. Chocolate enthusiasts often admit they are addicts and find it difficult to resist cravings and binge with unpleasant consequences. Post chocolate symptoms include anxiety, migraine headaches, abdominal pain, joint pain, mental agitation and depression. Chocolate addiction is more socially acceptable than it is healthy. Some chocolate eaters become quite ill and quite obese.
Women often report chocolate cravings in the premenstrual week.
Chocolate also serves as a surrogate for companionship or affection. PEA is related to our own catecholamine neurotransmitters and their amino acid precursors, tyrosine and phenylalanine. PEA has arousal properties similar to catecholamines and may be one of the pleasure substances in the brain. Most PEA absorbed from the bowel is destroyed in the blood or liver by the enzyme MAO-B. Coffee and Tea Coffee makes us speedy, irritable, sleepless, and often causes heartburn or ulcers. The removal of caffeine is supposed to reduce some of these undesirable effects.