Brut McKay here and welcome to know the addition of the art of manliness podcast.

We all know the basics of losing weight, don't consume more calories than your body needs.

And yet many of us still overeat anyway, sometimes continually, sometimes to the point where

at least to obesity, diabetes, and a significantly lower quality of life.

Widers of behavior betrayer intentions to be lean and healthy.

My guest day argues that the answer lies in the ancient instincts of our brains that no

longer fit the environment of the modern world.

His name is Stefan Guine, he's a neuroscientist, obesity researcher, and the author of the

Hungry Brain outsmarting the instincts that make us overeat.

We begin our conversation with what's changed in our country to turn obesity in epidemic

and why Americans started to gain more weight in the 1970s.

We then dive into exactly how the rewards system in our brain leads us deep more than what

we need to, how modern manufacturer foods like Doritos, my favorites, hijacked this reward

system, and the factors that ramp up our cravings, including the buffet effect.

Stefan then explains how to push back on this desire to re-eat, including re-evaluating

the assumption that all your food you consume has to be tasty and delicious.

From there, we turn the role that the hormone leptin plays in appetite regulation, how

can make it hard to keep the weight you lose from coming back, and the best techniques

to manage this counter-vailing force.

We enter conversation with the role stress and see play in weight gain.

After the show's over, check out our show notes at aewim.is slash hungry brain.

All right, Stefan Guine, welcome to the show.

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