How To Stop Eating Like Trash and Feel Better | Dr. Neal Barnard
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Tired. Bloated. Stuck in the cycle of “I’ll start next week.” Quitting junk food sounds simple, but in practice it’s one of the hardest habits to break.
Dr. Neal Barnard from the Physicians Committee joins Chuck Carroll, the Weight Loss Champion, to share practical strategies for eating clean and breaking free from the foods that drain your energy.
They unpack why too many calories can still leave you exhausted, what a balanced “clean” diet really looks like, and how to overcome the mental roadblocks that keep you reaching for junk food.
If you're ready to stop eating like trash, this episode is for you!
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| 0:00.0 | Today, on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | Half of our people, about 49% of our people in a diabetes study, carried a specific gene, Chuck. |
| 0:11.0 | The gene caused them to have fewer dopamine receptors than other people. |
| 0:16.0 | In other words, dopamine, the pleasure chemical, was not being activated in them like it was in other people |
| 0:21.6 | unless they would send it into overdrive. |
| 0:25.6 | If you are born with this gene, you have fewer dopamine receptors to feel good like other people feel, |
| 0:32.6 | you've got to overeat, you've got to smoke cigarettes, you've got to drink, |
| 0:36.6 | compulsive gambling, all of these things will cause dopamine to increase. |
| 0:41.3 | This would never have been an issue at all. |
| 0:45.3 | Prior to the invention of restaurant food, prior to the invention of alcohol and tobacco and compulsive gambling, |
| 0:51.3 | all these things are part of our culture that now |
| 0:54.3 | are available to the person who needs that dopamine hit. |
| 1:00.4 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I'm the |
| 1:05.2 | weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. Hi, to theeromies in Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine, and Vientian, Laos. |
| 1:16.5 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:20.6 | This is episode 72 of season 8, number 671 overall. |
| 1:26.7 | And today is all about a question that somebody had posted in a Reddit thread. |
| 1:33.4 | And they wanted to know how could they stop eating like trash? And this is not a unique question. |
| 1:41.6 | Even though it got hundreds of responses, this is something that so many people |
| 1:47.3 | struggle with. The hundreds of responses are proof that so many people are struggling. And if you |
| 1:52.6 | are in the struggle, you are not alone, but today help is on the way. How do you stop eating like |
| 1:58.4 | trash? Move away from the junk food, move away from the fast food, |
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