Impulse Control: How diet, lifestyle, and supplements may provide benefits.

Examine Database: Impulse Control

Intervention	Grade	Evidence	Effect
L-Tyrosine	C	Participants: 22	Small Increase
Nicotine	D	Participants: 28	No effect

Participants: 22

Small Increase

Participants: 28

No effect

Intervention	Grade	Effect	Detail
L-Tyrosine	C
Nicotine	D

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Can simple inhibitory control tasks improve food choices?

In this meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, the participants consumed less food and made healthier food choices after completing tasks in which “stop” or “no-go” responses were paired with images of unhealthy foods.

Examine Database References

L-Tyrosine - Lorenza S Colzato, Bryant J Jongkees, Roberta Sellaro, Wery P M van den Wildenberg, Bernhard HommelEating to stop: tyrosine supplementation enhances inhibitory control but not response executionNeuropsychologia.(2014 Sep)
Nicotine - McGrath DS, Barrett SP, Stewart SH, Schmid EAThe effects of acute doses of nicotine on video lottery terminal gambling in daily smokersPsychopharmacology (Berl).(2012 Mar)