Dr. Alia Crum
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Our mindsets change how we feel and expect to feel emotionally.
Our mindsets change what we're motivated to do and how we actually engage and behave in the world.
And what our work has shown is that our mindsets also change our bodies.
They change how our bodies physiologically prepare and respond to different things.
Yes.
Great.
So the milkshake study was very simple, actually.
We brought people into the metabolic research lab.
This was done at Yale University.
And we had them come in two time points and we had them drink a 350 calorie milkshake.
Okay.
What flavor?
It was vanilla.
Okay.
Just a simple vanilla milkshake.
And meanwhile, while they were drinking this milkshake, we had them hooked up to an IV.
And the reason we had them hooked up to an IV is we were measuring their blood.
Okay.
And in particular, we were interested in this hormone called ghrelin.
Ghrelin.