how to get your taste buds back after tonsillectomy

Explain how taste damage can have extensive unexpected consequences.

Distinguish between the way pleasure/displeasure is produced by smells and tastes.

Explain the salient properties of taste and smell that help solve the omnivore’s dilemma.

This may explain why individuals who have had ear infections or tonsillectomies tend to gain weight. Adults who have experienced these conditions experience intensified sensations from fats and enhanced palatability of high-fat foods.

Ear infections and tonsillectomies both can damage taste.

Taste damage releases that inhibition, thus intensifying sensations like those evoked by fats in foods. Taste inhibits a variety of other systems in the brain. No learning is required we are born loving sweet and hating bitter. Taste information is preselected (by the nature of the receptors) to be relevant to nutrition. Thus, people in very different parts of the world can learn to like odors (paired with calories) or dislike odors (paired with nausea) that they encounter in their worlds. Smell results from a biological system that essentially permits the brain to store rough sketches of the chemical structures of odor stimuli in the environment. Stimuli for both taste and smell are chemicals. Taste and smell cooperate to solve this dilemma. The omnivore’s dilemma is to identify foods that are healthy and avoid poisons. Humans are omnivores (able to survive on many different foods). Taste and SmellBy Linda Bartoshuk and Derek Snyder

How to get your taste buds back after tonsillectomy