here's an emerging vague guess i have about the interaction between nutrition and psychology, looking for feedback. it's probably a lot more complicated than this but really roughly: i think good nutrition can make you feel more powerful and capable at a deep psychological level
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your bodymind is just like "yeah whatever we're healthy and strong we can probably handle whatever shit is going down"
the worse your nutrition is, the worse your overall health, the more your bodymind is like "shit we're unhealthy and weak we can't handle anything"
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("bodymind" is a term of art i am stealing from , i think it is super good and i am going to try to make it happen)
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that sense of powerlessness amplifies fear, anxiety, all that stuff, because the more powerless you are the scarier all threats become
i could say more but that's about the level of detail that my vague guess warrants at this point. thoughts? relevant experiences? refinements?
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may not be what you're looking for, but one example is excess serotonin's ability to induce learned helplessness/powerlessness. 90% of serotonin is made in the gut, linked to food/nutrition. serotonin blockers actually reversed helpless behavior in mice. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1691672/
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*excess* serotonin? wild, that's the opposite of what i would've guessed. serotonin seems to have different functions in different parts of the body, complicated and confusing 🤔
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yep! once you emerge from the dogma cloud of "serotonin makes you happy" you'll find all sorts of things.. like, that it's a demon hormone (in excess) that wrecks the body/metabolism, and mind 😬
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