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Your diet affects your mood. Fasting, stress, gut-irritating foods, unpredictable and unfortunate events, etc., are all things that can make you act/react a certain way. I always thought that, or wanted to believe that, if I just ate a good meal, stayed on a good diet, kept my glycogen stores high and kept my blood sugar stable, I'd be OK, I'd be able to handle stress, not freak out in traffic, become irritated, always be happy, etc.
But, although food can have a great effect on you, it actually plays a minor role. What's actually important is your mindset. How many people are sick but eat a "healthy" diet. And then you get to know them and then you realize their mindset is the reason they are where they are. How about those people in the concentration camps that were under tremendous stress and had a horrible diet, yet afterwards they lived a long and meaningful life and even looked younger than other people their age. Their mindset is what makes them different.
The point I'm trying to make is that Hans Selye talked about GAS. General adaption syndrome. A stress happens, you react to it and then adapts. If the stress is too big, you maladapt. Break. Get sick.
But that stress is just a perception. Take for example two identical people. Both scratch their cars. One guy flips out and it's a major stressor. The other guy is totally relaxed and it's not that big of a deal. Guy two is going to be much healthier than guy 1.
And it's not just because of different neurotransmitters. It's a choice that you can make mentally, even in the heat of the event to act differently. Have you ever felt super mad and wanted to flip and then you just get a thought that this is not the way to act and you have that split second to make a decision if you're going to continue to act the way you are or stop and act decently.
Similarly, during a stressor you can change your perception of the stress. Change the connection you have to something and the stress can almost completely disappear. We create our own stress in our minds.
Point being, no matter how good your diet and lifestyle is, your mentality will determine how you will react to anything and if it will be a stressor or not.
I think the reason why I and other people might want to believe it's all about the diet, supplements and lifestyle is because it's easy to be on a diet, but it's hard to change yourself.
P.S. I'm not discounting unavoidable stress, such as an abusive relationship, EMF, man made toxins, etc. Such stressors are best avoided if possible. I'm mainly focusing on stressors we create in our minds and even things that happen that appear stressful are actually just our perception.
But, although food can have a great effect on you, it actually plays a minor role. What's actually important is your mindset. How many people are sick but eat a "healthy" diet. And then you get to know them and then you realize their mindset is the reason they are where they are. How about those people in the concentration camps that were under tremendous stress and had a horrible diet, yet afterwards they lived a long and meaningful life and even looked younger than other people their age. Their mindset is what makes them different.
The point I'm trying to make is that Hans Selye talked about GAS. General adaption syndrome. A stress happens, you react to it and then adapts. If the stress is too big, you maladapt. Break. Get sick.
But that stress is just a perception. Take for example two identical people. Both scratch their cars. One guy flips out and it's a major stressor. The other guy is totally relaxed and it's not that big of a deal. Guy two is going to be much healthier than guy 1.
And it's not just because of different neurotransmitters. It's a choice that you can make mentally, even in the heat of the event to act differently. Have you ever felt super mad and wanted to flip and then you just get a thought that this is not the way to act and you have that split second to make a decision if you're going to continue to act the way you are or stop and act decently.
Similarly, during a stressor you can change your perception of the stress. Change the connection you have to something and the stress can almost completely disappear. We create our own stress in our minds.
Point being, no matter how good your diet and lifestyle is, your mentality will determine how you will react to anything and if it will be a stressor or not.
I think the reason why I and other people might want to believe it's all about the diet, supplements and lifestyle is because it's easy to be on a diet, but it's hard to change yourself.
P.S. I'm not discounting unavoidable stress, such as an abusive relationship, EMF, man made toxins, etc. Such stressors are best avoided if possible. I'm mainly focusing on stressors we create in our minds and even things that happen that appear stressful are actually just our perception.