The person who had formerly had obesity has a much higher risk of developing obesity

again of going back to that obesity state.

There's a neurobiological and physiological force pushing that person's weight back up.

And that relates to things that happen in the brain, and it's not just genetic, it's

a gene by environment interaction, so there are certain environments that are obesity

promoting related to the characteristics of the food environment and psychological stress

and physical activity and all that, certain environments will be more obesity promoting

than others, but how much that actually fattens you depends on what your genetic makeup is.

What is up my friend and welcome back to the Legendary Life Podcast.

I'm your host Ted Rice, coach to entrepreneurs, executives, and other high-performing professionals.

Today we have our very special guest, Dr. Stefan Guinei. He's back on the show.

If you haven't heard his previous interviews with me, he's a neuroscientist,

author of the Hungry Brain, and the person who I consider responsible for the big shift in

the fitness industry, where we're starting to talk about obesity and neuroscience or obesity

in the brain. Now, if you're not sure what the connection there is because you think, well,

obesity is really about nutrition and exercise, isn't it? Well, yes, but it goes beyond that,

and that's why I want to have him back on the show. In fact, we're going to discuss the

medical definition of obesity, which in case you don't know, it's described as a disease of the

brain. Now, for a lot of you, you're going to maybe scratch your head a bit about that,

a disease of the brain. I thought it had to do with metabolism. I thought it had to do with hormones

or eating clean or whatever it is, but we're going to dive into this idea of the medical definition

of obesity being a brain disease. We're going to talk about where that might be, right? And also

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