Jim KwikFounder, Kwik Brain · Brain Coach

How You Eat Matters | Jim Kwik & Shawn Stevenson

20 Mar 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Jim Kwik and Shawn Stevenson explore how the mental state and beliefs surrounding food affect the body’s biochemistry and digestion. They argue that labeling a food as "bad" triggers subconscious beliefs that can complicate the body’s processing of that food, leading to a higher likelihood of retaining more calories. The conversation emphasizes that the way we think about what we eat—whether we view it as a negative behavior or associate it with personal worth—has tangible physiological consequences, even if we are not consciously aware of it.

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What you eat matters, but it's also how you eat it.
It's the state that you're eating it in. And we got to realize that this is happening all the time, whether we realize it or not. If we're telling ourselves, for instance, that we're eating a food that's a bad food, what does that do to your biochemistry? How does that relate? And just on a superficial level, if you're eating a bad food and you equate that to a bad behavior, are you being a bad person? If you're eating a bad food that's going to have these negative outcomes in your body, and that's what you're believing, that's your strongest belief, your unconscious or subconscious belief, your body is going to have a more complicated time. I'll put it simply, interacting with that food, and you're going to have a much higher likelihood of retaining more of those calories you consume.