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

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 “hunger hijackers”?

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