Restaurants are Brain-Hacking You🤯

When you go to a restaurant, the first

thing they do is put bread on the

table and ask you if you want alcohol

because both of them drop your frontal

loes. Both of them make it more likely

you're going to order more and spend

more money at the restaurant. So the

bread is an investment on their part

because bread gives you a sugar spike, a

blood sugar spike, which then pushes

serotonin in your brain and makes you

happy. But serotonin drops frontal lobe

function. One thing they never tell you

when they give you an SSRI for

depression is, oh, you're going to

become a little bit more impulsive

because it's going to drop your frontal

loes. And then alcohol, which also drops

your frontal loes.

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