What kind of thoughts do you have when you eat?

“Sugar will ruin my teeth. I’m not so sure, but my child is for sure! ”

“This meat has a little fat and I’m going to gain weight even harder!”

“If I eat salty, my blood pressure will increase!”

“If I don’t drink my coffee, I can’t even get out of bed. If I don’t drink a second coffee, I can’t even read my emails. ”

“This mayonnaise is going to blow up my cholesterol!”

“Milk brings me calcium and orange vitamin C.”

To some extent, these claims could be true. But is it possible to potentiate or inhibit the effects of these foods just by changing our minds about them or what they can do to us?

Careful! Research has estimated that 35-45% of all medicines may be due to the effectiveness of the placebo effect. 67% of over-the-counter remedies, usually food supplements, do us good because of our belief that they will do us good, that they are more effective than chemicals, that they are less aggressive, with fewer side effects. In some studies, the placebo effect was 90% effective!

It surprises me that, while in the pharma industry, the placebo effect is frequently considered and widely used, in relation to food it is hardly considered at all. And, yes, believe me, its effects are amazing in terms of the relationship between man and his food. You know from the famous saying of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, “May food be your medicine and medicine your food.”

It’s like going to your own pharmacy, inside you, when you eat and think that the food will do you good, it will bring you health, healing. What we think about life, about food, about people is transformed into chemistry, into physical reactions, with the help of the senses, nerves, the endocrine system, neuropeptides, the immune system and the digestive system.

What are you going to tell yourself from now on when you sit down at the table?

I would love to hear your opinions. I would like you to send me phrases that you say when you eat, so that your brain can give commands that balance you, maintain your proper weight, grow your hair, make you big. Let’s think together what we should tell our children about food, so that we can build a lifelong friendship with food, so that their thoughts in the presence of food are always thoughts that give them strength, give them life.

source: M. Sisson