Why We Over Eat ft. "The Hungry Brain" Author, Dr. Stephan Guyenet
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Stephan Guyenet is on the Brute Podcast this week to dive into his book, The Hungry Brain. Hunger is one of the strongest biological influencers for survival in all species, but is it a physical or mental need?
Tune in as host Michael Cazayoux and Dr. Guyenet define hunger, how it influences decisions and how to hack the process in order to take control of cravings and improve eating behavior.
Topics:
06:35 – Eating behavior
14:50 – What is hunger?
20:04 – Fasting & calorie restriction
38:45 – Sleep, stress and hunger
42:00 – Making a change in your eating
55:30 – Food choices for children
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The Hungry Brain – Guyenet
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.4 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou. |
| 0:19.6 | Mind, Body, brute. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey, and welcome back. |
| 0:26.3 | My name is Mike Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | This week's guest is Stefan Guine. |
| 0:32.5 | Stefan is the author of the book The Hungry Brain. |
| 0:36.2 | And so obviously, in this show, we talk a lot about hunger. He defines |
| 0:40.5 | what hunger is. And one of my favorite things about his book and about the work that Stefan is doing |
| 0:46.0 | is that he really takes away a lot of the shame around eating. I've always thought that what we eat is about like willpower and people that are |
| 1:00.0 | able to control what they eat are stronger and better. And he really takes, he puts that in a |
| 1:07.2 | different light and he helps reframe that so that it takes the shame and the guilt around |
| 1:12.3 | a lot of the decisions that we make. So he does that by describing the processes and impulses that |
| 1:19.5 | happen in our brain that drive the decisions that we make surrounding food. We talk about cravings and why we crave foods that are unhealthy for us. |
| 1:31.7 | We talk about what stress and sleep have to do with hunger. |
| 1:35.2 | And then finally, and maybe most importantly, |
| 1:37.9 | we talk about how we can hack these processes to have greater control over what we eat. |
| 1:46.5 | I got a ton out of this episode and I hope you do too. Enjoy the show. Stefan, what's up, man? Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 1:53.5 | My pleasure. Good to be here. So I always like to start out with something super serious. |
| 2:01.6 | And this is called the three feelings question. |
| 2:04.8 | And it's actually not very serious. |
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