The recipe of the 'TV doctor' so that good things begin to happen to us

He is popularly known as the 'TV doctor' for his appearances on the 'Saber Vivir' program on 'La Mañana de La 1'.

Specialist in Nutrition, Nicolás Romero has just published 'Start to live' (Editorial Grijalbo), a book in which he proposes, nothing more and nothing less than, "throw ourselves into the pool so that

in life".

And how do you do that?

What makes us feel dead in life and how can we resurrect?

"We feel existentially trapped when

when we want to do something worthy and uplifting with our lives, but we don't know how. This feeling of no way out after having suffered the pandemic and now the war in Europe it makes anyone's emotional health crumble, especially young people, who have everything to do. To resuscitate us, we have to change our mentality and start living differently. With more truth and knowledge of who we really are, of what innate talent we have and what abilities would make us

Now there is a great fan of running.

I see it on the street because I also practice it.

Many people start running out of inertia, without first asking themselves what their muscle is like, explosive or resistance, with what they recover better, what their posture is like in the race, why they have contractures or so many injuries.

A deep

, self-esteem and self-confidence will allow us not to become zombies when we are resurrected."

A self-care that, focusing on 'your business', begins by not 'dumping' all our frustrations on food.

How can food become a

?

Romero explains: "When we feel the overwhelming urge to gobble up food to mask our emotions, we've long since lost control. Starting in adolescence, anyone can become an emotional eater when overwhelmed by a losing streak and Adversities are chained without being able to overcome them.This personal crisis can cause in the future an

caused by intense emotional discharges that will delay the resolution of daily life conflicts, feeding a continuous cycle of anxiety that will lead to a compulsive relationship with food".

And, of course, in situations like this we do not jump headlong into a bowl of spinach to relieve our anxiety.

Why, even in the movies, when someone suffers from lovesickness, do they fill themselves up with ice cream?

"Also, it's usually an ice cream that the character in question

.

In other cases, you end up on the couch stuffed with pizza, hamburgers, and sodas.

It's all hype, but it's two culturally accepted images of emotional eating that in turn reinforce and amplify these behaviors.

I have not seen any movie where they binge on lettuce or eat a pot of lentils by the spoonful to overcome lovesickness.

The negative emotions of failure, frustration, or disappointment in love are almost universally associated, thanks to movies and television, with

calorie, ultra-processed food.

This fabrication of the desire to eat to overcome adversity by industry and advertising is the main reason that many people show a

and binge eating".

As human beings (and imperfect) that we are, we are much better at the straw in the other's eye than life in ours, but before what signs should we start to consider that the issue is getting out of hand?

"An emotional eater does not eat out of real hunger but to

. We can identify some signs that put us on the track that we eat in an emotional way: if Despite being hungry, we choose only the food we like, especially

-processed foods, and reject other common foods; if we have eaten a reasonable amount for a short time and continue to indulge in

;

if

and attack the food in an anxious way;

if we show

: we feel

when it is not near us and we are willing to do whatever it takes to get it;

if the above signs are preceded by a conflict at work, with the family, or in interpersonal relationships".

So far what we should not do with food but Dr. Romerp goes further and gives us his recipe on how we should eat to practice that self-care that will bring us so many benefits: "Because of its influence on the brain and survival, In the self-care chapter of 'Start to live', I dedicate a section to the

(I speak of diet in the sense of the Greek term Diaita, which means way of life.) The immune diet is not only based on food , also in

that has anti-inflammatory effects, regulates the activity of the defenses and delays the loss of immune protection that appears with age".

In short, he reminds us, "everything that produces an

will help the immune system to do its job better."

In this sense, he points out that "we have more and more scientific evidence that many nutrients and organic molecules are immunomodulators. The immune system needs an excellent diet, with an adequate supply of energy on a constant basis, of macronutrients, micronutrients, fiber and bioactive phytochemicals. Micronutrients

have shown immunostimulatory effects and actively contribute to the immune response, both innate and acquired."

And, already put to work the miracle of rising from our ashes, invites us to

.

Dreaming is like going to

.

It allows us to release the negative mental load accumulated when we were awake, to start clean and fresh the next morning.

The brain reprocesses the traumatic episodes experienced the day before to change the version of events.

Then, keep in mind a less distressing memory that makes us feel a little better and see things differently.

Hence the importance of consulting with the pillow.

For this conflict rewriting mechanism to work, the brain presents us with an imaginary product that it is creating at that moment, that is, the daydream.

Even if the next day we can clearly see that it was just a dream without signs of reality and we forget about it, its

will already be achieved".

Pamper ourselves and dream.

Without a doubt, it is not a bad plan to take back the reins of our lives.

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