
#331 David Robson- The Cutting-Edge Science of How Our Mindset Holds The Keys to Unlocking a Better You
What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
How Your Body Processes Food Differently
I'm endlessly fascinated by how your body processes food differently based on your thinking about what you're eating. Our psychology influences our feelings of hunger and we know that from people who lose the ability to be able to form new memories. In an experiment participants thought they were drinking two different milkshakes and reporting the experiences of each one but actually they were exactly the same milkshake. They saw barely any change in ghrelin at all it was just kind of flat as if they hadn't eaten. That's the worst thing that can happen if you're dieting is if you have this kind of weight watcher shake that has quite a few calories inactually but that you think that it
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