Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Brett Schur. Today I'm joined by Dr.

Stefan Giena. Now, Stefan has a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington, where he also did his post-doctoral training.

And he sort of specializes in the neuroscience of weight gain and weight loss. And he's the author of the book, The Hungry Brain, which is really a comprehensive guide of how the brain affects weight gain and weight loss.

And you'll hear him say in the interview, he doesn't want to call it comprehensive

because that would mean it includes everything.

And he's sure there's things he left out.

And that says a lot about him and about his personality

and that he really does

want to focus on the science and speak very, in a very measured way about what the science

truly says and truly doesn't. He always wants to default back to the science and wants

to be very clear about when he's speculating, when he's hypothesizing or what the science

says. And so I think that statement of his really says a lot about his personality, which is something

I really respect.

You can find him at stephangeena.com and also on Twitter at W.H. Source.

And in this discussion, we really talk a lot about the neuroscience of why we gain weight

and really try and nail them down on some of the

practical tips of what we can do to help counteract the neuroscience right because there's this

environmental and genetic mismatch of the way we're wired and the environment we're in so we need

to find ways to overcome that and Really, a lot of it does come

down to this concept of satiety per calorie, getting the maximum satiety and fullness for the

minimum number of calories, or at least finding the balance where you're going to have a diet

that you're happy with, where you're hitting all your satiety and nutrition needs, but not

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