{"id":239726,"date":"2026-06-26T14:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/brain-circuit-explains-how-comfort-food-helps-relieve-stress"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:14:45","slug":"brain-circuit-explains-how-comfort-food-helps-relieve-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/brain-circuit-explains-how-comfort-food-helps-relieve-stress","title":{"rendered":"Brain Circuit Explains How Comfort Food Helps Relieve Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-circuit-explains-how-comfort-food-helps-relieve-stress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers identified a neural circuit connecting the brain\u2019s reward and stress systems. In mice, chronic stress increased anxiety and activated stress-responsive neurons, while consuming palatable food reversed these effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers identified a neural circuit connecting the brain\u2019s reward and stress systems. In mice, chronic stress increased anxiety and activated stress-responsive neurons, while consuming palatable food reversed these effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}