Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Blood. Outside of acting, my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast,

we're going to talk about all of it. Food as entertainment, food as sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person, just like you and me.

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Today on American Glutton, I'm talking to Amy Shaw and she is a double-board certified

medical doctor and nutrition expert with training from Cornell, Columbia and Harvard universities.

Her new book is called I'm So Effing Hungry. You can find her online at amdwellness.com

or at fastingmd on Instagram. Amy Shaw, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

Thanks so much for having me. So your new book, I'm So Effing Hungry, is something I can't wait

to read and I'm very interested on how you crack the code of hunger because hunger is something I've

dealt with, you know, into certainly severe degrees my entire life. Yeah, it's something that we

don't know enough about and the funny thing is the food companies know about it. They know all

about how our brain and hunger are wired. So I thought to myself like, why don't we actually know

what this is all about and how we can make ourselves like, you know, crave more of the good things

and lots of the bad things. So kind of came out of the ideas like, well, if the food companies are

capitalizing on this, shouldn't we actually know what's happening? That's why I wrote it. Yeah.

Yeah, I get into this loop of like, am I, you know, I start to think about like the two

positive pathways to hunger, you know, the homeostatic and the hedonist, hedonic and I'm often

fighting with myself because I have no idea which it is if I'm being triggered by standing

next to a crispy cream or if my body's actually saying like, you need some fuel.

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