SNR #166: Stephan Guyenet, PhD - The Neuroscience of Overeating & Regulation of Calorie Balance
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Episode 166: Stephan Guyenet, PhD discusses what drives us to overeat, factors affecting appetite regulation and calorie balance.
Stephan is an obesity researcher, neurobiologist, and author. In addition to his research, he enjoys synthesizing and communicating science for a general audience over at his hugely successful blog. Stephan has a BS. in biochemistry (University of Virginia) and a PhD in neurobiology (University of Washington). He recently published the fantastic book 'The Hungry Brain', which dives into the causes of obesity from the perspective of overeating and related brain chemistry.
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| 0:00.0 | I really try to get at these questions from the angle of first principles, |
| 0:11.0 | and so I really try to understand what is it about food that our brain wants? |
| 0:17.0 | I mean, what's the point of eating? |
| 0:19.0 | We can look at this from a couple of different angles, |
| 0:22.5 | but the one that you're asking about here is looking at which food properties drive our behavior, |
| 0:29.7 | because we know that food is reinforcing, it's rewarding, it's seductive, it's something that we |
| 0:36.0 | want. But we also know that not all foods have that effect on us, right? |
| 0:40.5 | So what is it about a food that is motivating to us? |
| 0:45.2 | And we actually know a lot about how this works. |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah. Hello and welcome to episode 166 of Sigma Nutrition Radio. |
| 1:13.1 | I am your host, Danny Lennon, and as always, every week here you get to talk with academic researchers and world-class practitioners that are at the forefront of evidence-based nutrition and performance. |
| 1:20.2 | And this episode will be no different, as I'm going to be talking with neurobiologist, |
| 1:24.9 | Stefan Giena, about various issues related to the neurobiology |
| 1:29.7 | of overeating, obesity development, hyper palitability and other related issues. |
| 1:36.4 | But before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to bring to your attention a couple |
| 1:41.9 | of things, particularly one of those is related to those of you who are looking for information about |
| 1:49.2 | nutrition courses because one of the most common questions that I get asked is what |
| 1:55.8 | nutrition course I recommend that people do. |
| 1:59.5 | And there's obviously a lot of nuance to the kind of different |
| 2:03.1 | backgrounds people are coming from. But as I've said many times before on this podcast, my |
| 2:11.8 | default response has been to say Mac Nutrition Uni, which is headed up by probably without doubt one of the |
| 2:20.1 | most knowledgeable, well respected and genuine folks involved in evidence-based nutrition, |
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