hypothalamus

But then in the medium to long term, you get what's called the hypothalamic axis.

A- look it up in Wikipedia, H-Y-P-O-T-H-A-L-A-M-I-C axis, and that can then cause long-term changes.

And if you don't want these long-term changes to happen, you got ac- you may...

I'm guessing here, if you haven't got any physical changes, you may have accidentally got conditioned, like the poor, uh, publicists who can't drink champagne anymore, and you c- the good news is you can condition yourself back again in many cases.

Hmm.

And hypothalamus is like when a, you know, a neural circuit is a bunch of different parts of your brain that talk to each other to control something.

Hypothalamus is like command central for all of those homeostats.

And it is also a place where, um, it uses this kind of Wi-Fi signaling a lot.

And it happens to be a hotspot where inflammation goes up with age.

Like the whole calories in, calories out script works way better for men.

Not saying energy balance is fake, but the mechanism is different, especially via hypothalamus.

Hypothalamus as a thermostat is an amazing mental model.

It senses nutrients, temperature, and stress signals, not just willpower.

So when women fast or train fasted, the body may interpret it as famine stress.

It's like training on hard mode but still blaming the player.

And calorie myths compound it because calories in, calories out isn't equally simple.

Hypothalamus baseline calories differ.

It's very unhappy by yourself.

Hypothalamus is in a position to take information that may be reflexive like the ick, but put a cognitive interpretation on that experience.

Okay.

Uh, we learn to put appropriate social, societal interpretations on our sensory information.

I might expand it once we're done covering part one and part two and go further into these topics maybe to help you in the future just in general.

Hypothalamus manages hunger, thirst, and body temperature and controls the HPA axis for stress response.

A lot of times you'll get questions that are connected to trauma, addiction, or regulatory disorders.

So if a client with PTSD shows hypervigilance and poor memory, for the trauma you're seeing here what an overactive amygdala that's hypervigilance the sympathetic nervous system kicks in and impaired hippocampus integration so encoding memories could be a problem here the hp axis which we've talked about before regulated by the hypothalamus also connects stress to illness so chronic overactivation floods the body with cortisol increasing vulnerability to anxiety depression and metabolic disease and we covered this in another episode Subcortical structures, subcortical meaning underneath the cortex, deep in the brain lie the basal ganglia, the thalamus, and the brainstem.

I might expand it once we're done covering part one and part two, and go further into these topics maybe to help you in the future just in general.

Hypothalamus manages hunger, thirst, and body temperature, and controls the HPA axis for stress response.

A lot of times you'll get questions that are connected to trauma, addiction, or regulatory disorders.

So if a client with PTSD shows hypervigilance and poor memory for the trauma, you're seeing here what? An overactive amygdala, that's hypervigilance.

But also, yeah, is there going to be that same level of... resources registered where it matters.

Hypothalamus and the areas it works alongside, it's not going to receive the same insulin signal now.

It's going to think we've got less than we have.

More stress response required with