Listen to your gut lifehack

“Listen to your gut”. A life hack for intuition or how to activate your gut feeling. For example, you need to make a decision. Place an empty plate in front of you. Take a knife and fork. Imagine that the problem you’re facing is on the plate and you’re eating it.

Cut it into pieces, bring it to your mouth, chew carefully, and listen to your feelings and responses: is it easy to chew? Is it easy to swallow? What kind of sensation arises in your stomach? Just half a minute is enough. Put down your utensils, and lean back in your chair. What aftertaste do you feel? Sniff! What is the smell? Do you like it?

This method helps to identify and realize hidden fears and doubts produced by your amygdala (the life hack is taken from the personal experience of an investor who refuses a seemingly rational and profitable deal that didn’t pass the edibility test).

I would like to remind you again that intuition works in social and professional areas (where you are not a specialist and don’t have sufficient experience and exposure, intuition won’t work because your brain isn’t trained).

Breaking the vicious circle

Nobody wants to be sick and weak. Why then do people make many attempts to change and still fail to do so? One of the common reasons is getting into a vicious circle, which over time worsens health and makes breaking out impossible. A vicious circle is like a swamp—the more you try to get out, the stronger it sucks you in. In this case, it is important to understand where it can be broken, and on which link to act. Thoughtless heroic efforts to change at any cost can only worsen the situation. In medicine, a vicious circle is a situation where the disorder itself becomes a factor that supports the same disorder. Cause and effect are connected: for example, with blood loss, the blood supply worsens, which leads to heart failure, which worsens the blood supply even further. The same goes for our habits. For example, the worse we feel, the less we want to move. The less we move, the worse we feel. Don't wait for a "convenient moment" or "inspiration"—just star...

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Here, in my blog, I share insights on living a healthy lifestyle grounded in science and evidence-based medicine . I teach how to integrate health into your daily life, and I also write about psychology, neurobiology, social evolution, aesthetics, and dopamine — all aspects that influence our well-being and behavior. I firmly believe that everyone should understand how their body works and be able to apply that knowledge in practice. No one knows you better than you do, and when this self-awareness is combined with an understanding of fundamental physiological processes, it helps you make healthy and effective decisions . I study and teach effective strategies to strengthen and maintain individual health , carefully reviewing scientific research and promoting a culture of health education. For me, health is not just the absence of disease — it’s wellbeing, energy, and the body’s reserve resources . Being healthy means being effective! Everyone has the potential to learn how ...

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