For years, at dinner parties, I had to get up from the table and find a quiet corner to deal with my social anxiety. That was not my experience at a passover seder last night, a few months into a low sugar, low starch diet.
Maybe it's just getting older, but the experience of this dinner -- the first since going on the nutritional change -- was very different from how I had experienced social gatherings in the past. I just felt more level and less reactive. More able to just enjoy the gathering of friends and family.
I recommend this podcast by Stanford professor Andrew Huberman on the subject as a start.
