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Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life

455: How Your Brain Is Making You Fat (And What To Do About It) with Stephan Guyenet

Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life

Ted Ryce

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8848 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ever plowed through a pint of ice cream? Gone back for seconds (or thirds) at a buffet? Then you know how difficult it can be to put the skids on eating. You might curse your lack of willpower, but in this special episode, Ted discusses the brain's influence on weight loss with neuroscientist Dr. Stephan Guyenet. Also, he reveals who to trust when it comes to health and nutrition information, and proven ways on how to regain control of emotional eating. Listen now!

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0:00.0

If you look at surveys conducted by the American Psychological Association on stress, these

0:12.2

surveys are called stress in America.

0:16.1

What they report is that a lot of people overeat when they feel stressed and it's actually

0:23.1

not universal, some people under eat, some people overeat, but more people tend to overeat

0:29.6

and under eat.

0:30.6

And that's particularly true for women, actually, women are more susceptible on average

0:35.8

than men to stress overeating.

0:39.4

And yeah, so this is a big deal, so why do we do that?

0:47.0

What's up, my friend?

0:48.0

My name is Ted Rice, and you're listening to the Legendary Life Podcast.

0:52.0

Today I've got Stefan Guine, and Stefan, if you don't know, he's a neurobiologist who's

0:59.6

a, who specializes in studying obesity, what causes obesity.

1:06.7

And very recently, he went on the Joe Rogan show to debate Gary Tobs.

1:12.7

And if you don't know, Gary Tobs is, Gary wrote good calories, bad calories, he's written

1:18.0

a bunch of other books, and he went on to debate Gary about the true cause of obesity.

1:24.8

Now I'll tell you, Gary is the smartest person I've ever

1:29.4

talked to when it comes to understanding the mechanisms driving the obesity epidemic

1:35.6

in the modern world.

1:37.8

And we get into not only some of that stuff, because I've covered it in previous episodes,

1:43.5

just go to LegendaryLife Podcast.com, and you can listen to my previous episodes with

1:48.3

Stefan Guine, but today we're going to get into some philosophical discussions, too.

1:54.7

We're going to talk about why things like this are happening, why a guy like Gary, who

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