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Dr. Amy Shah on Food Creates Mood, Dopamine Pathways, and Improving Your Gut

Published: Feb. 27, 2023, 10 a.m.

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Amy Shah

  • A life lesson she learned from growing up in rural India and riding a horse carriage to school
  • Why the gut works with the principle of: take action first and motivation follows. And how to support gut bacteria to crave good things
  • The difference between hunger, cravings, and appetite
  • How cravings are connected to the dopamine pathway
  • Ways to help kids train positive dopamine pathways and avoid cravings later in life
  • What are the three \\u201chunger hijackers\\u201d?
  • How is most modern food engineered? What is the bliss point?
  • What are psychobiotics?
  • What is your gut microbiome? How can it control our hunger?
  • Why our bodies are solar powdered and why we need natural light
  • One good easy rule: sky before screens every day
  • There are gut bacteria deep in our guts that need natural sunlight to function optimally
  • Light is our biggest circadian input followed by food and temperature
  • The biggest things women can do to protect against aging and hormone changes is maintain muscle mass
  • What's the first small change we can make today to stop being so "effing hungry"?
  • Why exercise is the strongest probiotic you can take!
  • What the nova classification of food is and how it impacts our health and mood
  • Her personal 80/20 of non-negotiable things she does

Resources We Mention

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