Peter Attia· MD
under conditions where we are rested we are feeling rational we understand the environment we feel in control of things the prefrontal cortex leads activation of the amygdala and the insula
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under conditions where we are rested we are feeling rational we understand the environment we feel in control of things the prefrontal cortex leads activation of the amygdala and the insula
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now the insula activity and the amygdala starts leading the rule set of the prefrontal cortex the in other words the the coach now becomes the player right the trainer becomes the trainee so it's literally an inversion of instead of it going prefrontal cortex leads to insula leads amygdala it's insulin amygdala lead prefrontal cortex
the prefrontal cortex can only access one or two very specific rule sets you lose flexibility of thinking