But why do so many people still like it?
They don't like the taste of wine, which is just to make it easier for them to drink. What they like is the feeling, atmosphere and mood after drinking.
Today we are going to talk scientifically about why wine tastes bad, and many people will like it.
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The main ingredient of wine is alcohol, of course. After alcohol enters the human body, it will affect the secretion of three hormones:
Dopamine, endorphin, γ -aminobutyric acid.
Dopamine is secreted, and people's intuitive feeling is to do something, reward it and make you feel happy. I hope I can do it again next time.
The function of many drugs is to rapidly increase the secretion of dopamine and achieve the purpose of mental stimulation.
But this kind of stimulation will soon disappear and fall into the era of sages. Excessive secretion will lead to premature death, and even if you survive, you will have symptoms of schizophrenia and epilepsy; Not secreting or secreting less will make people get Parkinson's disease, dementia and so on.
So the human body has a second stimulant as compensation-endorphins.
Endorphins are secreted, and the intuitive feeling is that when you do something, you feel very uncomfortable. Making it up will make you feel happy, keep you going and have a sense of accomplishment.
Similar to the pleasure after a lot of exercise.
This kind of pleasure comes slowly and walks slowly, which brings people a more soothing and healthier feeling. Once activated, people will be full of energy, energetic, quick thinking, significantly enhanced memory, resulting in unparalleled pleasure.
Another situation is that it is too depressed and frustrated, and neither dopamine nor endorphins can save it.
At this time, gamma-aminobutyric acid came to help. When it secretes, it will make people feel that it makes you unhappy, nothing, just sleeping.
γ -aminobutyric acid is mainly responsible for reducing the excitability of the brain and playing a calming role. Alcohol is an agonist of GABA. By combining with GABA receptor, it can increase the level of GABA in the brain, thus inhibiting the degree of brain excitement.
Drinking will make you drunk, which is the result of excessive sedation of the brain, similar to the effect of anesthesia.
Therefore, in the process of drinking, people will present three States, namely, excitement and quick thinking; Excitement and insanity; Fragments, drowsiness.
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There is a threshold for the secretion of dopamine and endorphins. The younger you are, the easier it is to secrete; The older you get, the more experience you have, and the harder it is to secrete.
This also explains why young people don't like drinking.
There are many things that can make them excited.
Brush Tik Tok every day, one brush is one day, because after watching each short video, our expectation for the next short video will make us produce dopamine, and we can't stop being happy.
Sichuan food, spicy strips and chicken feet with pickled peppers are not delicious, just because peppers irritate our tongues and feel pain. In order to calm this pain, the brain will secrete a bunch of endorphins, which will make you eat spicy food and be happier.
Compared with the ancients, we can touch, eat and play with too many things, which become the driving force for the brain to secrete dopamine and endorphins.
When these stimuli are too frequent, the threshold of dopamine and endorphin secretion will increase. It will make people have higher requirements for short videos and spicy strips, become less excited and happy, lose illusions and hopes for life, and be prone to depression.
So some people drown their sorrows by drinking, and forget and confuse themselves by new and stronger stimuli-in fact, they are all controlled by the body and look for more dopamine and endorphin stimulation methods.
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Studies have shown that when drinking the same amount of alcohol, men's brains will secrete more dopamine than women's, which will make men happier.
No wonder men who like big fish and big meat and drink in big bowls are always the main consumers of wine.
But for the first time drinkers, high-grade liquor is unfriendly, which can only make people feel the stimulation of alcohol, but they have no time or interest to feel the complexity inside. This is why many ordinary people prefer a little sweet semi-dry or sweet red wine.
But slowly, the threshold of dopamine and endorphin secretion will continue to rise, requiring more alcohol stimulation.
As a result, China's high-alcohol liquor became what Ma Yun called a stimulant, and he didn't understand it until he was 40 years old.
So, it's not that you don't like drinking, but that your body likes drinking; It's not that I don't know how to drink, but that my body needs wine.