Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

I'm Sharia, and I lost 80 pounds on Weight Watchers.

I realized that it would take more than a prescription to lose weight and feel good on a GLP-1.

And how we can counter its devastating mental health effects.

The reason gratitude is so important from a scientific perspective is because when you are doing a gratitude, daily gratitude practice, it takes 60 seconds.

you are rewiring your brain because what you are doing, it's a scientific, again, a fancy scientific name called cognitive reframing, what you focus on grows.

So Rick Hansen talks about this idea of when you're going through stress, he's a psychologist in California, negative experiences become sticky in the brain like Velcro.

You hold onto them because it's a feeling of survival and self-preservation.

And so when you start practicing gratitude on an everyday basis, it's cognitive reframing.

What you focus on grows.

So you shift your perspective.

So even if negative and positive are happening at the same rate, good and bad things are happening in your life at the same rate, when you are feeling a sense of stress, you are focused primarily on the negative because you are thinking danger, danger, danger, right?

Red alert.

And so how do you decrease that stickiness of negative experiences in your brain when you're feeling a sense of stress?

By practicing gratitude.

So the negative experiences may happen, but it slides off.

How does it happen?

Through gratitude.

So you write down those things every single day.

And studies have demonstrated that 30, 60, and 90 days, there's improved mood, decreased stress and burnout, better sleep.

There are so many benefits to what everyday gratitude practice.