Overeating and The Hungry Brain with Stephan Guyenet | EP#73

Stephan Guyenet, PhD, explains how our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t care about how you look in a trisuit next summer.

 

IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:

-The Food Reward system

-The brains valuation of food and Optimal Foraging Theory

-Delay Discounting and the Stanford Marshmallow experiment

-How the lipostat works against your attempts to reduce body fat

-Satiety, and the factors that can increase (and decrease) our satiety per calorie

 

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LINKS AND RESOURCES:

- Stephan's website

- The Hungry Brain 

- Examine.com Research Digest

 

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