Crave & Binge Eat Junk Food (when you know you shouldn't)? Neurologist Explains
David Perlmutter, MD is the best-selling author of Brain Wash: https://amzn.to/2GYU1Yk
In this video we discuss the neuroscience of decision making and how our food system and lifestyle can pre-dispose us to make compulsive decisions about food, money, and more.
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04:15 Disconnection syndrome is a disconnection between information and action. Between the prefrontal cortex and the primitive brain.
07:26 Our decision-making apparatus has been damaged primarily by inflammation.
08:25 Getting one night of poor sleep increases impulsivity and amygdala response increase by 60%.
09:45 Poor food decisions lead to increased inflammation, increased body weight and poor sleep.
10:28 Decision influences include sleep, digital experience, social media, standard American diet, lack of wanting to connect with other people, and lack of nature exposure.
14:40 Meditation in all forms have been shown to light up the prefrontal cortex.
16:05 An Us vs Them fear-based view is fostered by the amygdala-based behavior and inflammation.
22:57 Cognitive empathy is looking at the world through another’s perspective.
26:10 Our long-standing adaptive survival mechanisms are being hacked by modern life.
26:51 Insulin resistance was a powerful adaptive mechanism that allowed us to survive by increasing our body fat for our survival.
28:32 Social media is not true social interaction.
31:43 Quick fixes lead to more impulsivity.
34:42 The amygdala serves us. It brings instantaneous reactivity when it is necessary.
38:00 In neuroplasticity, the things we do more of, enhances pathways.
39:03 Early life trauma is associated with measurable changes in the brain.
40:11 To enhance neuroplasticity, take supplemental DHA and turmeric.
40:35 Neurogenesis, the growth of new brain cells, is enhanced with aerobic exercise.
43:40 BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factors) is amped up whenever you raise your heartrate.
48:03 Depression is an inflammatory disorder.
48:50 Narcissism in college age individuals has increased 40%.
50:52 Adolescents and teenagers need more sleep. They perform better when the sleep later in the morning, giving them REM sleep.
52:15 Thumbs up/likes on a social media post brings us a dopamine hit, even if it isn’t our post.
53:00 Snap Chat Dysmorphia: People want to have surgery to correct their online image, not necessarily to look better in real life.
53:16 Internet addiction boot camps for kids are active in China and South Korea.
54:11 Advertisers are using functional MRI to discover how the reward centers of the brain respond to their ads.
58:46 Technology is a wonderful servant, but a dangerous master.
59:15 Americans spend an average of 6 hours a day in front of screens.