The Neuroscience Behind Death of Mexican Kim Kardashian

Recently, Joselyn Cano, a super-voluptuous Instagram model and influencer who was called by her fans as the Mexican Kim Kardashian, died at the young age of 29. She was known for her abnormal body curves created through surgeries. With each new surgery, she had gained more and more followers, totaling nearly 13 million at the time of her death, caused by complications of her last butt-lift surgery. But why wasn’t Cano satisfied with her earlier surgeries? In my recently published book, I draw from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to explain, in simple terms, the underlying causes of our addictive thoughts and behavior. The following is a modified excerpt:

For humans, winning is now often conceptual and not in a physical sense so dopamine and testosterone are no longer linked only to physical pursuits and conquests but released whenever we get ahead (even if by cheating) in any race, even when we outperform others in publicity and win virtual followers on social media. Unfortunately, this can easily become addictive!

Cano, like many successful models and celebrities, practically conditioned her own brain with each surgical procedure, in a Pavlovian way, into addiction to “winning” more followers and fame. The testosterone (winning) loop is our brain’s third destructive (addictive) feedback loop. As humans, for most of our lives we are prisoners to these broken and self-reinforcing feedback loops which push and pull us between our desires and fears. As a result, we often walk a tight rope between anxiety and recklessness, paranoia and bravado, depression and addiction.

The book discusses the other 2 self-reinforcing feedback loops as well as the role of female sex hormones such as estrogen on feedback loops connecting our body and brain. The book, which took me longer than my Ph.D. thesis to write, is my uncensored insight and a practical scientific guide to how our body and brain communicate, balance each other for health, or burn out together for disease and disorder.

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