Now No, it sounds completely crazy, but your diets can also impact the way that you feel. There's a part of our brain called the amygdala. And the amygdala is what kicks off when we are going through a stress or trauma. It's the part of our brain that act like an alarm system, and it controls whether we fight, flee or freeze when we've had a shocking experience. It is actually designed to protect you but sometimes in life, it can become a bit of a hazard. Now for things to be kind of moving from a trauma in your in your brain into actually being something that is like a memory in your brain like stored back in the filing cabinets.

The amygdala works together with another part of the brain called the hippocampus. And these two work together to form memories and put them into the filing cabinet called things re cortex. During a trauma however, the amygdala starts to take over because it's designed to protect you. And it gets overstimulated when you have this kind of shock. it dumps out a bunch of hormones and neurotransmitters to help us get into action to protect us. Although you might not be needing protection, it's an ancient part of your brain that is designed that way.

The chemicals that it actually dumps out are called adrenaline, noradrenaline and another one called cortisol. And cortisol is the naughty one. That's the one that creates stress within our bodies and in our minds. When you have heightened levels of cortisol in your, in your body, it is designed to increase your blood sugar's so that you can take some action, but too high blood sugar and too high cortisol makes you very jittery. Cortisol also stimulates gastric acid secretion and that's why sometimes you feel nausea, you feel a bit lightheaded, almost like you've sustained a blow to your stomach. That's why many people don't eat when they're going through a heartbreak and they lose their appetite.

Heightened cortisol also shuts down hippocampus in the brain and that's why you can't think straight. So if you find yourself unable to concentrate Whatever, it's very much a function of getting all of these chemicals in your body to calm down. Now a lot of that can be influenced by your diet and what you actually do with your diet to decrease the blood sugar levels, elevated cholesterol and anything else that is precipitating the stress on your body. They some simple kind of principles that I have written down in a trauma diet. Now that's a completely separate program that I sell, but there's summary of the trauma diet or kind of the kind of brief parts of it. Essentially, make sure that you do not have sugar.

When you're healing from a breakup make sure that you cut down on alcohol, stimulants, artificial flavorings, colorings, energy drinks, and junk food. What you want to be eating a lot of is green eating green stuff, green kale, green spinach, you know, broccoli, that kind of stuff. So in every single meal that you eat up the greens, nuke the sugar and increased fats healthy fats like Greek yogurt, avocados, olive oil. Those small changes will actually make you much more calm, much more balanced and alleviate some of this incredible spikes and peaks and troughs that you experience with the amygdala just going to be crazy. So make sure you get hold of your diet and take some important steps. In the next video, I'll give you some more things that you can do to impact your diet.