Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

It's much more difficult to think the thoughts that we want to think when we don't feel well.

Right. And you don't feel well, we start to think bad thoughts.

So much of our biology is driving our lives, you know, how we feel. But this is the thing. We can think externally of our biology. We can change our thoughts and change what's happening with our biology instantly because every thought that you think has correlating chemistry that's released. Really? So right now, right now, right now, yeah, in a loving way. So I'm going to start releasing a little bit of oxytocin, you know, a little bit of maybe a little dopamine, you know, a little serotonin. In the brain. Yeah. Which then releases. But it also depends on the thoughts as well. For example, we have a thought where something bad is happening right now. We're thinking about, you know,

maybe we're worried about something that we care about. Maybe they've been an incident of some

sort. Maybe we heard some news about it, but it's not true. Okay? So maybe we heard that somebody

that we love got into an altercation. And we're just like, you know, really upset, like whatever,

and we can start to produce these chemicals associated with that stress. So much more cortisol, right? So a lot of people know about cortisol.

Cortisol is not a bad guy. We've talked about this before. Right, right, right. It's a big part of

it. Too much hurt you. Especially and chronically, we start to release all these neurotransmitters,

neuropeptides, hormones, all driving us towards worry,

fear, anger, regardless if the situation is real or not. That's the rough. Make it up. So we can think

external, we can think beyond our current circumstances and change our biology. But if our biology

is in a tough place, it's harder to keep trying to do that. When we bring in an abnormal amount of sugar, like the way the humans evolved, we didn't have access to sugar like that. You know, if you come across a beehive or something, you're going to risk getting stunned against some of that. All right. We've always had a hankering for sugar, like through our evolution. We'd go towards, like I said.

Fruits and this. Yeah, we'd go for those things, especially, but also is available for some

cultures only certain times a year, for example. And so you would rack up on it as well.

The human brain itself, if we think about the blood brain barrier that protects the brain,

it only allows in certain things. Certain nutrients,

it only has gates for certain gases like oxygen, for water, only certain nutrients get into the brain.

The brain has its own exclusive diet, but there are a lot of sugar gates. Your brain will gladly

sop up half of the sugar that you take in in a meal. There are these protein gates that allow the

sugar to transfer over from through the blood brain barrier into the brain itself. Many of the

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