{"id":18572,"date":"2019-04-12T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15minutematrix.com\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:37:16","slug":"pod_mapping-the-addicted-brain-with-christina-veselak-72","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/blog\/mapping-the-addicted-brain-with-christina-veselak-72","title":{"rendered":"Mapping The Addicted Brain with Christina Veselak #72"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Mapping The Addicted Brain with Christina Veselak #72\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-04-12T07:24:08+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT16M51S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\u201cThe addicted brain is a starving brain,\u201d and Christina Veselak takes us inside the body to better understand the brain driven, bio-psycho-social illness that results in cravings and addictions. 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She swiftly addresses the chemical imbalances underlying addictive behavior and illustrates how we, as conscious clinicians, can do the same with both diet and lifestyle modifications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/fxna\/15minutematrix\/resources\/15MM-072-Matrix-Mapping-The-Addicted-Brain-with-Christina-Veselak.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/15MM-download-matrix-button-v9-768x612-1-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21096\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/fxna\/15minutematrix\/resources\/15MM-072-Matrix-Mapping-The-Addicted-Brain-with-Christina-Veselak.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download the completed Matrix from this week\u2019s episode<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.addictionnutritionacademy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about the Academy for Addiction &amp; Mental Health Nutrition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt; Christina mentions the work of Kenneth Blum, a researcher in neuropsychopharmacology and genetics who has focused his studies on \u201creward-deficiency syndrome\u201d; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4586005\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learn more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[307],"tags":[],"podcast_category":[239,267],"podcast_tag":[245,236],"class_list":["post-18572","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","podcast_category-body-systems","podcast_category-neurological-health","podcast_tag-environmental-inputs","podcast_tag-nutrition"],"_yoast_wpseo_sitemap-include":null,"_yoast_wpseo_canonical":null,"_yoast_wpseo_redirect":null,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":null,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":null,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskeywords":"[]","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":null,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":null,"_yoast_wpseo_title":null,"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Explore the addicted brain with Christina Veselak in this insightful audio episode. 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