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The No.1 Health Expert: The One Food (WE ALL EAT) That's Slowly Hurting Us!: Max Lugavere

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Are You on Autopilot?

I was looking at a study they did on rats and habits. The first time the rat runs through the maze to the chocolate, there's a ton of cognitive activity. So as I looked at the brain scans of those rats, it was just completely flat because they were on autopilot. And that's what our lives become. When we get out of bed in the morning, our route from the bed to the kitchen is not one that requires me to have any sort of cognitive activation. It doesn't need for my brain to... Yeah. I mean, it's an efficiency machine after all.

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