Jud Brewer

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Jud Breweris an American psychiatrist, neuroscientist and author. He studies the neural mechanisms of mindfulness using fMRI technology and has used his findings to treat addictions. Jud chats with the Armchair Expert about contentment vs. excitement, how meditation dissolves the sense of self and the biological reasons humans have cravings. Dax talks about how food scientists flavor foods to lose their taste and Jud gives Dax and Monica a test on openness. The two talk about the neurological reasons we behave the way we doand Monica reveals a big update in the fact check. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard I'm joined by Monista Mouse
0:07.1	I'm so excited that you labeled your house the mouse house. My new house is the mouse house
0:12.3	It's really exciting. It sounds so fun like the Mickey Mouse Mouse
0:16.4	house. You're gonna make it real colorful and fun in there like a mouse. I will.
0:20.7	Oh well also it has been announced that I'm doing a digital show with Ellen that's gonna follow the renovation for that home
0:27.8	That house house. It's called what Monica's new pad? Monica's new pad
0:39.4	Today we have a really interesting guest, Judd Brewer. Judd is an MD, a PhD, is an American, psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author. He is director of research and innovation at
0:43.6	Brown University's Mindfulness Center, an associate professor and behavior on
0:47.8	social sciences in the Brown School of Public Health, and in psychiatry at Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School.
0:54.8	Brewer founded Dr. Judd an app-based digital therapeutic treatment program for anxiety,
1:00.6	overeating, and smoking.
1:02.4	You should check out his book, The Craving Mind,
1:04.7	From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love,
1:06.9	why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits.
1:10.1	This was a great episode.
1:12.6	Yeah.
1:13.6	I learned so much, he's so smart and anytime we can learn about the way the brain is functioning,
1:19.8	it just gives insight to why we do all the things we do.
1:22.3	Yeah, it really helps you work through it. You're like,
1:24.4	oh that's just that happening and that's that happening and this will pass and...
1:28.1	And I can do this to combat that. Yeah, it's great. Who doesn't have a bad hat? If you don't have bad habits, I don't even want to talk to you.
1:35.0	I do want to talk to you.
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