Dr. Robert Lustig

Today, when kids do that, instead of generating an adaptive negative reinforcement response,

What you instead see is chronic toxic stress.

You see kids melt down.

You see kids basically not being able to handle the stimulus.

And we see this throughout all walks of life.

This notion that we have lost our stress resilience.

In the process, we have gotten sick.

We have gotten stupid.

And we have gotten angry.

And when those individual responses become conglomerate over an entire population, over an entire society, you end up with the societal health problems that we have today, which ultimately lead to the planetary health problems as well.

So I would argue that it is this problem in our amygdala that has actually generated these issues.

And the question is, well, what then happened to our amygdala?

And it turns out there are four breaks on the amygdala, four things that basically tell the amygdala, calm down.

And all four of them are breaking at the same time for different reasons.

through different mechanisms, but all four are currently dysfunctional.

And that's why our amygdala is running hog wild.

Basically, it's all amygdala all the time.

And I can prove it.

The incidence of depression has tripled.

The incidence of obsessive compulsive disorder, which is amygdala override, has basically gone up like 10 times in the last 20 years.