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Hunger Games!😩🧠

When you enter a calorie deficit, your brain perceives the process as a threat to your survival. It does not recognise your goal of fat loss. Instead, it classifies the energy shortage as a famine and begins to shift your internal chemistry.

Hunger hormones like ghrelin ramp up and satiety signals dampen to force you to seek more fuel. You may notice feeling hungrier because your nervous system is simply executing a protocol designed to keep you alive! It’s not your willpower, its science!

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Brilliantly Clueless🧠🫠

We’ve all seen a total genius fumble a basic everyday situation. It turns out, academic intelligence and everyday common sense don’t even live in the same neighborhood in your brain.

While your IQ handles hard data, your Default Mode Network (DMN) is working behind the scenes to keep you functioning in the real world.

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