Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
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Yeah, you're 171% more likely to be overweight than if your siblings are overweight. You're about 40% more likely to be overweight. That's so crazy, man. Yeah, because our friends influence our behavior. Peer pressure works for good or bad.
You talk about the default mode network, which is this part of the brain where sort of the ego lives. And it's this sort of more rigid sense of little self that separates you from the world. And things like meditation, like you look at these monks who have been meditating for 40,000 hours in a cave. These default mode networks are shut down and they just are connected and one with everything.
You talk about the default mode network, which is this part of the brain where sort of the ego lives. And it's this sort of more rigid sense of little self that separates you from the world. And things like meditation, like you look at these monks who have been meditating for 40,000 hours in a cave. These default mode networks are shut down and they just are connected and one with everything.
You talk about the default mode network, which is this part of the brain where sort of the ego lives. And it's this sort of more rigid sense of little self that separates you from the world. And things like meditation, like you look at these monks who have been meditating for 40,000 hours in a cave. These default mode networks are shut down and they just are connected and one with everything.
What can I say?
What can I say?
What can I say?
I don't think psychedelics are generally designed to, in full doses, be a place for more creativity. It's more insight and connection and understanding, I think.
I don't think psychedelics are generally designed to, in full doses, be a place for more creativity. It's more insight and connection and understanding, I think.
I don't think psychedelics are generally designed to, in full doses, be a place for more creativity. It's more insight and connection and understanding, I think.
Well, they're using it for post-traumatic stress, and it's just people's hard-wired patterns that come from trauma, and it's having extraordinary results.
Well, they're using it for post-traumatic stress, and it's just people's hard-wired patterns that come from trauma, and it's having extraordinary results.
Well, they're using it for post-traumatic stress, and it's just people's hard-wired patterns that come from trauma, and it's having extraordinary results.
It's pretty cool. So when you help people shift their mindset, other than taking psychedelics, What do you do to help them transform their thinking and shift out of it?
It's pretty cool. So when you help people shift their mindset, other than taking psychedelics, What do you do to help them transform their thinking and shift out of it?
It's pretty cool. So when you help people shift their mindset, other than taking psychedelics, What do you do to help them transform their thinking and shift out of it?
Because I just see people stuck in loops and they have a story that they tell and they have a narrative for their life and they live into that narrative in a way that often is dysfunctional and impedes their ability to be happy, to have happy relationships, to be successful in life.
Because I just see people stuck in loops and they have a story that they tell and they have a narrative for their life and they live into that narrative in a way that often is dysfunctional and impedes their ability to be happy, to have happy relationships, to be successful in life.
Because I just see people stuck in loops and they have a story that they tell and they have a narrative for their life and they live into that narrative in a way that often is dysfunctional and impedes their ability to be happy, to have happy relationships, to be successful in life.
And for whatever reason, I sort of was also in that state when I was younger, but I worked really hard to learn how my mind operated and change the narrative to be one of I could do anything.