Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. Okay, check this idea out. Changing our

relationship with food is not about willpower. It's about understanding the brain and applying neuroscience principles

to unwind negative habits. Now, this is one of the paradigm shifting ideas from today's guest,

Dr. Judd Brewer, author of the new book, The Hunger Habit. Dr. Judd is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and professor at Brown University School of Public

Health.

He studies the neural mechanisms of mindfulness and has translated his research into programs

to treat addiction.

He founded Mind Sciences, now known as Dr. Judd, an app focused on digital therapeutic treatment or anxiety,

overeating, and smoking. In our conversation, Judd provides fascinating insight into the nature

of habit development and neural reward systems. We discuss the nature of emotional eating and why we,

quote unquote, eat our feelings. Judd breaks apart homeostatic from hedonic hunger and how you can

delineate between hunger as a biological need from a psychological craving.

We probe the role the food industry plays to hijack our biology and contribute to the formation of maladaptive habits and hedonic hunger.

Judd tears down the willpower myth.

We excavate habit change, the myths of mindful eating,

and the role of kindness in reframing our relationship with food. Okay, but before we dive in,

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