Theo Project brought. Wait, what you learn? Thank you for joining us again today. We wanted to talk a little bit more about some of the hormonal changes that we we kind of briefed in the last episode. But the reason why I wanted to have you back on to talk a little bit more about that and a little bit more on the sleep and caffeine issues related to food choices. Some of it comes from personal experience living in Kuwait. There was a point where I was drinking about 10 cups of coffee a day. Yeah, I was like, you know, start up in the morning. You make yourself a pot of coffee than all day. You're in meetings. The social life and entertainment is all around, you know, cafes and coffee shops. And the boring knew it. I was at a point where caffeine was just, you know, hardly even making an impact. I felt, you know, for know what it's supposed to dio And then just how it also kind of leads to some poor food choices. When you when you struggled to sleep, you know, you rely on the caffeine and just what that does Yeah, it's just kind of a lifestyle thing that I don't know if it's because of the caffeine that people are up later, but the late night are very common for a lot of people. They run on like, 4 to 5 hours asleep around holiday times that it gets pretty typical just because there's a lot of family obligations, lot of social obligations. But I think the mentality, especially with a lot of younger clients that I've had in two wait, is that they think that, like, you know, 4 to 5 hours of sleep is okay and enough and then just you know, all these caffeine options that they have, you know, for a social life or you just daily fuel, I think, to kind of help combat. That is just seems trend. So I just want to touch on that a little bit a ll this and more. Today's what are your thoughts on it?
spk_1
Those were a lot of thoughts, So
spk_0
let's start with backtracking off of the first episode and a little bit more unlike the we talked about hormonal changes in neurological changes that happened. So what specifically is happening there?
spk_1
Okay, in the last episode for people who might be remembering what we talked about. I was asked to come and speak about the addictive nature of some food, specifically sugar and flowers and, uh, how even when people want to control the amount because they know they're gaining weight or they've got diabetes, they find that they really struggle with food choices, like picking the really super sugary fatty foods over the more healthy choices, and that some of that has been engineered to be that way like it's. It works very well for the food companies to make. You have those kind of choices because you'll eat more than you normally would, and you'll eat the more expensive concoctions that are offered and part of this. It's premised on the biology of our appetite and our satiation like what satisfies us like when somebody says I'm struggling with food, please, whoever's listening, it is by no means a problem with your willpower. It's got to do with the fact that either you I have a vulnerability to specific food so that you get caught quicker than somebody else like somebody's Met might start smoking cigarettes finds that there are smoker before somebody else. You think you know, recreational? Have a cigarette here and there. I don't know if that's an issue in Kuwait, but it certainly is a big issue. What issue?
spk_0
Definitely. Yeah, Yeah, when I first got out there, they're smoking allowed, like in the malls, in the hospitals and everything. Still, I think that's just been in the last few years where they they started to decrease that. Yeah, well, first open from the fitness facilities, we had people passing out in the warm up because they just physically, you know, there's just so it was so hard for them, you know, breathing
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