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And I hope you enjoy the show.

Welcome to the Brain OverBinge Podcast, where we share a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating.

This is Catherine Hansen.

I'm the author of Brain Over Binge and the

Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide, and I'm so glad to be co-hosting this show with my friend and

colleague Cookie Rosenblum. Thank you, Catherine. I'm excited to be here. Cookie is a master coach

and also an author herself. And we also teach a course together using this approach.

And we want to welcome you today. And today we're excited to share the information we have for you.

We're going to talk about the lower and the higher brain. This is a central part of the

brain over binge approach that we actually have two parts of our brain at work in binge eating. Last episode, we talked

about the urges to binge and how they are the direct cause of binge eating. In this episode, we want

to tell you that these urges to binge come from a lower part of your brain, from a more

primitive part of your brain, which some people call the animal brain.

And this part of your brain is in charge of your survival instincts. It's in charge of your

habits. And as we talked about in our last show, these urges to binge arise because of survival

instincts, which is caused a lot of times from dieting and calorie restriction,

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