Eating is often seen as restorative, but it actually creates metabolic stress on your body. The Japanese practice of harihachi bu, eating until 80% full, aims to reduce that stress. Certain foods can increase anxiety.
Eating is often seen as restorative, but it actually creates metabolic stress on your body. The Japanese practice of harihachi bu, eating until 80% full, aims to reduce that stress. Certain foods can increase anxiety.
And I think one of the things is that we tend to think of eating as being restorative, right? Like, we're going to sit down and eat, and this will be restorative. But in actual fact, it's actually stressful. It's a metabolic stress on the body. And so, you know, in all the blue zones, they really have this mantra of harihachi bu, I believe, is the term. Harihachi bu, I believe, is Japanese. And it really is aligned with the idea of. Of stopping when you're, you know, like 80% full. Like, you never eat until you're full. You only eat until you're not hungry. And that decreases the metabolic stress on the system as well. So. And then there are certain foods that can make you anxious, like foods high in glutamate and things like that that you can look up. So all that becomes super important.
