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Lisa Feldman Barrett - Your Emotions Aren't What You Think

Mind & Life

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Are You Running a Deficit?

A major constraint on the functioning of a nervous system is metabolic. The energy constraind and brain predictively tries to regulate the body in a way that is metabolically efficient, which we call alustasis. And so if you're running a deficit biologically, you're running like a body bugat deficit because you don't sleep enough or are worried about your kids. Rising nationalism goes along with stress for a really good metabolic reason.

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