Human brains are not evolutionarily adapted to modern lifestyles, which can lead to maladaptive wiring.

“And whether now in the modern world, whether it's food, it's drugs, it's sex, it's alcohol, right? Or it's negative thoughts, right? This is short-term soothing. Even the negative thoughts, And anger is short-term soothing at the expense of long-term change, right? And that's where addictive pathways can come into play. And that's where, again, our, how we're built evolutionarily for survival, doesn't help us, you know, in the way humans have evolved. Like we haven't lived this way throughout, 99.9% something percent of human history, right? So we're not adapted to this.”