The Neuroscience of Habit — How Patterns Form, Why They Stick, and What It Actually Takes to Change Them
You didn't decide to reach for your phone the moment you woke up. You didn't choose to pour that second cup of coffee on autopilot, take the same route to work, or find yourself halfway through a bag ...
22 Juni 7min
Hedonic Pleasure — Why More Never Feels Like Enough
You finally get the thing you wanted. The meal, the moment, the reward you've been looking forward to all week. And for a brief, beautiful window — it's everything. And then it isn't. And then you wan...
15 Juni 6min
The Pleasure Triad — How You Were Wired to Seek Comfort, Conserve Energy, and Avoid Pain
You are not broken. You are not lazy. You are not lacking discipline. You are, in fact, doing exactly what a hundred thousand years of human evolution designed you to do.In Part 4 of this series, Dr. ...
8 Juni 6min
Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms or Numbing
If you've ever reached for food when you weren't hungry, poured a drink to take the edge off, scrolled until midnight to avoid your own thoughts, socialized mindlessly, filling your time with plans th...
1 Juni 6min
ACE - Adverse Childhood Experiences and their impact on our health
In this foundational episode, Dr. Sharma — triple board-certified physician, certified Menopause Practitioner, and certified life coach — unpacks adverse childhood experiences from the ground up. What...
18 Maj 4min
Contributing Factors to Obesity — Genetics, Epigenetics, Hormones, and Set Point Theory
In the next few episodes, I want to talk about the contributing factors or causes of obesity in detail. The number one thing is genetics. Genetic predisposition plays a foundational role, influencing ...
11 Maj 12min
How Your Weight Impacts Your Health
Let's talk about what obesity actually does to your body — not to shame or scare you, but so you understand what's really at stake.In this episode, I walk through the hard science: obesity is an indep...
8 Maj 4min
