Peter Attia· MD
what you find is that the people who are in the upper end the eights and nines and like my wife 9 and a half um I don't get it but there you go um they tend to they tend to be really healthy
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what you find is that the people who are in the upper end the eights and nines and like my wife 9 and a half um I don't get it but there you go um they tend to they tend to be really healthy
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the happiest people they have three macronutrients in balance and abundance by the way before we get to those are those responses normally distributed they are normally distributed but the mean is not five oh the mean is is more like seven and a half so there's a bias top scale and the reason the reason for the skew is because you know you feel like if it were it would be better if it were a five right because then we would if it were a five it would be saying that a three is you know within one Center deviation there's nothing wrong with being a three nobody wants to be a three numbers have numbers have cultural veilance yeah right they they really do and so people will kind of uh yeah it's like you know being normal happy that's like seven eight right and what you find is that most people over the course of their adult lives early 20s to early 50s they they they're between 7 and 9 most people are from 7even to n most of the people that I talk to that I work with especially the executives that I work with one-on-one who are threes they're depressed they're actually suffering from from Clinical issues they're behind the line of scrimmage there's nobody who's like yeah I'm pretty normal I'm like you know probably the 40th percentile that probably makes me a three and a half 40th percentile is probably a five is the way that that works and they they they would like to be better and they feel like they're not as good as they should be despite the fact that in the in the scale that looks like the middle of the scale it's not the middle of the scale okay got it so what do you find that the people who are in the upper end the eights and nines and like my wife 9 and a half um I don't get it but there you go um they tend to they tend to be really healthy and healthy means they have balance and abundance across what I often refer to as the happiness as macronutrients and I do this you know it's very easy in you know your audience because everybody knows it's protein carbohydrates and fat and the best diets are those that have all of them in balance in abundance and the and you have to get your your Macros and you're not going to have you know 100% protein that sounds good for somebody for a week until they become miserable and so the three macronutrients are enjoyment satisfaction and meaning those are the three macronutrients of happiness and and none of those by the way is straightforward any more than protein carbohydrates and fat is straightforward you know it's like I I'll be fine I'm going to eat a chicken and a stick of butter and a and a ho ho and then I'm going to eat that exclusively for the rest of my life and it meets my macros so I should be fine no no no it doesn't work that way you actually have to understand that understand what each one of those things are enjoyment satisfaction and meaning and you have to have strategies to understand why they're so hard to attain and what you need to do exercises to make sure that you can be better and more skillful at attaining each one so let's start with enjoyment then yeah so enjoyment seems sort of straightforward I want to enjoy my life get a lot of pleasure that's wrong pleasure is limic enjoyment is is part of is involves the prefrontal cortex enjoyment is a much more complex uh phenomenon than pleasure pleasure is a signal from the limic system that says this thing that you're doing will help you survive usually through caloric needs or pass on your genes through something like sex so that's what pleasure is really all about it's nothing more it's you know it's it's just like any any positive emotion it sends a signal saying do more of this that's not the secret of Happiness that's incredibly evanescent it's extremely temporary and if you pursue pleasure what you'll be doing is you'll be engaging systems in your brain the dopamine system for example which is the anticipation of reward the reward being pleasure you'll hit the lever get the cookie hit the lever get the cookie it will never last and you'll become an addict pleasure seeking I mean the hippie phenomenon the hippie motto of it feels good do it is life ruining advice it's just the dumbest thing ever if it feels good do it you'd never go into the ice bath I mean you wouldn't stay married if it feels good do it all the time it's just terrible advice so what do you need for enjoyment the answer is the source of pleasure adding two things people and memory that's where you're you're engaging
the people who are in the upper end the eights and nines they tend to be really healthy and healthy means they have balance and abundance across what I often refer to as the happiness as macronutrients
Based on these data, you find that the happiest people, they have three macronutrients in balance and abundance.