519: Reducing food cravings & why willpower doesn’t exist | Neuroscientist Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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“Don't underestimate the power of curiosity," says Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D. Jud, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, joins us to discuss how to reduce unhealthy food cravings, plus: - Why do we eat when we’re not hungry? (~00:09) - What really drives hunger? (~02:59) - Should you see a nutritionist or neuroscientist? (~06:42) - The psychological component of weight loss (~11:14) - How to overcome food cravings (~15:32) - Why willpower doesn’t exist (~19:56) - How personality types influence intuitive eating (~22:58) - How to hack your brain’s reward system (~29:24) - How to actually eat intuitively (~32:11) - Committing to healthier snacks (~40:33) - What Jud eats in a typical day (~43:12) - How hunger hormones change with age (~45:58) - Hunger differences by gender (~47:40) - Why curiosity is a superpower (~51:09) Visit shop.mindbodygreen.com/creatine20 to get 20% off creatine+. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Visit shop.mindbodygreen.com/whey20 to get 20% off grass-fed whey protein isolate+. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Referenced in the episode: - Jud's book, The Hunger Habit. - mbg Podcast episode #294 and #197 with Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D. - mbg Podcast episode #482, with Jillian Michaels. - Jud's previous book, Unwinding Anxiety. - Eat Right Now app. - Jud's study showing a 40% reduction in craving-related eating. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	In honor of the first week of 2024, we're back with an extra episode featuring one of my favorite
1:07.8	neuroscientists, Dr. Judd Brewer.
1:10.8	Judd is the king of unpacking your habit loops. He's previously been on the show to discuss
1:15.8	addiction and anxiety and today he's applying that same logic to our hunger hormones.
1:21.1	How can we reduce unhealthy food cravings, how can we actually eat intuitively.
1:27.4	How do our hunger hormones change as we age? Judge answers all that and more in today's show. It's a great episode to
1:35.4	start 2024. So why do we eat when we're not hungry? Where should I start? I start.
1:44.0	Let's hear it all.
1:45.0	Yeah, well, it's interesting because our bodies and minds are exquisitely designed
1:51.0	for eating, right? Obviously, if we't eat we don't survive. And so we have all these
1:57.2	baked-in survival mechanisms to help us eat. Yet in modern day it it's really interesting, they get hijacked or they get miswired. And so now we're doing all of these things that actually get in the way of our survival because we're setting habits of eating when we're not actually
2:15.4	hungry. For example, you know let's use emotional eating for example or stress eating right
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