TJ Power

And suddenly it's a very different experience because we now hear each other's voices on the phones. And when you're a very young baby lying in a cot, so much of your oxytocin comes from hearing the sound of your primary caregiver's voices and then knowing, okay, they're near me, I'm safe. And it came from sound and also came from touch.

A baby wasn't growing up reading a little message saying, okay, now I'm safe because I've read a message. And with these primal things that are deeply wired into our brain are important to consider.

A baby wasn't growing up reading a little message saying, okay, now I'm safe because I've read a message. And with these primal things that are deeply wired into our brain are important to consider.

Text has its function for sure. Don't have to call everyone on that list, but the people you really love or the people that need your love, I think it's important.

Text has its function for sure. Don't have to call everyone on that list, but the people you really love or the people that need your love, I think it's important.

Yeah and that's an interesting phenomenon for modern humans that so much of this key chemical that impacts our mood, the stability of our mood but also our energy levels is manufactured there and our body deeply craves nice natural food to enter it so that it can be broken down into amino acids like things like tryptophan which are the precursors to the construction of serotonin and

Yeah and that's an interesting phenomenon for modern humans that so much of this key chemical that impacts our mood, the stability of our mood but also our energy levels is manufactured there and our body deeply craves nice natural food to enter it so that it can be broken down into amino acids like things like tryptophan which are the precursors to the construction of serotonin and

the modern gut is struggling. There's so much of this sort of ultra processed food, very high in chemical food that is very addictive, very dopaminergic, very pleasurable to eat, but it's really disrupting our gut and therefore disrupting our capacity to build this chemical.

the modern gut is struggling. There's so much of this sort of ultra processed food, very high in chemical food that is very addictive, very dopaminergic, very pleasurable to eat, but it's really disrupting our gut and therefore disrupting our capacity to build this chemical.

We are. And I think nutrition is a complicated landscape in the modern world because there are so many opinions and there's like, we need to be extreme meat eaters or extreme vegans, or you have to follow this diet or that diet.

We are. And I think nutrition is a complicated landscape in the modern world because there are so many opinions and there's like, we need to be extreme meat eaters or extreme vegans, or you have to follow this diet or that diet.

And it can be very complicated for maybe the average person who's not a nutritionist themselves to actually understand like, which of these foods am I supposed to be eating? But I think by and large, if we can get back to the core of just

And it can be very complicated for maybe the average person who's not a nutritionist themselves to actually understand like, which of these foods am I supposed to be eating? But I think by and large, if we can get back to the core of just

most of our diet being natural foods that were here on earth before we got here as humans if the food if you look at it on your plate and you think could that actually exist without human intervention then yeah it's probably going to be pretty good for your health it's going to be good for your microbiome and the serotonin production and then of course as you dive deeper into nutrition you can optimize your protein and your antioxidants and everything those sort of decisions are really good decisions to be making but i think

most of our diet being natural foods that were here on earth before we got here as humans if the food if you look at it on your plate and you think could that actually exist without human intervention then yeah it's probably going to be pretty good for your health it's going to be good for your microbiome and the serotonin production and then of course as you dive deeper into nutrition you can optimize your protein and your antioxidants and everything those sort of decisions are really good decisions to be making but i think

The addiction we currently have to ultra-processed food in the modern world, like here in the UK, 57% of our calorie consumption on average is ultra-processed food, which is a huge proportion. I don't actually know the exact figure for the US, but I imagine maybe some.

The addiction we currently have to ultra-processed food in the modern world, like here in the UK, 57% of our calorie consumption on average is ultra-processed food, which is a huge proportion. I don't actually know the exact figure for the US, but I imagine maybe some.

Might be even higher in the US. Yeah. We got to do something about that.

Might be even higher in the US. Yeah. We got to do something about that.

Definitely. And I think these two things, I think foods and phones are the big thing that if society, if you like really get good with your food and your addiction to your phone, I think big shifts happen with your mental health.