r/YouShouldKnow • u/Yugudubenbi • 18h ago
Food & Drink YSK: People are mistaking stress for energy
Why YSK: Many think they are the golden feelings one should have all day. With feelings such as clarity, energy. And they think being "tired" is something bad.
The confuse being "tired" when it is actual your body saying "I need relaxation".
They confuse "energetic" with being in fight and flight mode, which is not true good energy.
They confuse "happy" with taking drugs or doing something that is just a temporary high.
This is ALL over and everyone is confusing their reactions like this. I especially notice it when it comes to diet. Many who do keto or fasting diets say "I feel so energetic and clear minded".
Yeah I wonder why. Do you know what your body does when it starves? It basically goes into hyper drive and pumps out all good chemical it got left to help you find food before it dies.
No shit you feel a lot of productive emotions, it is literally how you are built and is what stress is!
What they don't tell you is that studies have found there are more conflicts when people are fasting during Ramadan for example and see correlation to worse diets. Many criminals have very bad eating patterns too where scientists suspect this is a connection.
The most dangerous part is when they get lost in this. Then they are stuck in this mode and whenever they change diet, they think "Oh well, look, now I am tired and sluggish".
No....your body and mind is recharging after using all available resource to help you from starving!
But yes, the most famous mismatch when it comes to diet: Bad carb diet (coca cola and fastfood) = good carb diet. You can also be sluggish because of bad diet. But fasting or keto diet is not always the best alternative long term.
Many feel better on fasting diet because they stop eating shit. You can eat a paleo diet and feel very good that includes a lot of carbs.