#2252 The Science of Dodgy Backs - Dr. Jeff Gross

This might sound judgy, everybody.

I don't mean it to.

It's not a judgment.

It's an observation.

based on 45 years.

Fuck, I'm old.

18, I started this bullshit.

45 years of helping people change stuff.

For the first 30 years, it was purely or primarily physiological, but the last decade or two, it's been in the psychology, emotion, physiology, practicality, sociology, personal, professional space.

I feel like a lot of people, no, I don't feel, I know a lot of people, Dr. Jeff, keep doing the thing that doesn't work, knowing that it doesn't work and and not changing to the thing that does work because it seems overwhelming or terrifying or uncomfortable.

So I'll keep doing this thing that isn't optimal because I'm used to it.

Like the way of eating.

How many people want to be, say, change their body composition, fitter, healthier, less risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

They want to be leaner.

They want to look, feel, function different.

But they continue to eat a diet which they know is way less than optimal.

Is that your experience? Like, why the fuck do you think that so much we continue to do things and it's not through lack of knowledge? Like, we know...

And again, I'm not trying to be judgmental because some people have addictions that make it very difficult.

I get that.

But just in general life as well.

Oh, I mean, that's something that's so common, not just in my medical practice, but, you know, with children and everything, right? You know, why do you keep behaving that way? You're not getting rewarded for it.

In fact, you're getting the exact opposite.

So they must be getting something deep and visceral and primitive from it.

Some pleasure centers being, you know, pleasured somehow.

Yeah.

This might sound judgy, everybody.

I don't mean it to.

It's not a judgment.

It's an observation.

based on 45 years.

Fuck, I'm old.

18, I started this bullshit.

45 years of helping people change stuff.

For the first 30 years, it was purely or primarily physiological, but the last decade or two, it's been in the psychology, emotion, physiology, practicality, sociology, personal, professional space.

I feel like a lot of people, no, I don't feel, I know a lot of people, Dr. Jeff, keep doing the thing that doesn't work, knowing that it doesn't work and and not changing to the thing that does work because it seems overwhelming or terrifying or uncomfortable.

So I'll keep doing this thing that isn't optimal because I'm used to it.

Like the way of eating.

How many people want to be, say, change their body composition, fitter, healthier, less risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

They want to be leaner.

They want to look, feel, function different.

But they continue to eat a diet which they know is way less than optimal.

Is that your experience? Like, why the fuck do you think that so much we continue to do things and it's not through lack of knowledge? Like, we know...

And again, I'm not trying to be judgmental because some people have addictions that make it very difficult.

I get that.

But just in general life as well.

Oh, I mean, that's something that's so common, not just in my medical practice, but, you know, with children and everything, right? You know, why do you keep behaving that way? You're not getting rewarded for it.

In fact, you're getting the exact opposite.

So they must be getting something deep and visceral and primitive from it.

Some pleasure centers being, you know, pleasured somehow.

Yeah.