Huberman Lab Clips(@HLPClips):Social stress costs you 104 calories per meal: Your brain runs a budget for your body, and it is budgeting glucose, salt, oxygen and water. Get socially stressed within two hours of a meal and you metabolize that food less efficiently, burning the equivalent of 104 extra calories. Over a year that is 11 pounds. Being with a friend you trust runs the other way: everything you do is slightly less metabolically expensive. @LFeldmanBarrett on @hubermanlab

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Social stress costs you 104 calories per meal: Your brain runs a budget for your body, and it is budgeting glucose, salt, oxygen and water. Get socially stressed within two hours of a meal and you metabolize that food less efficiently, burning the equivalent of 104 extra calories. Over a year that is 11 pounds. Being with a friend you trust runs the other way: everything you do is slightly less metabolically expensive. @LFeldmanBarrett on @hubermanlab