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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Books:
The Hungry Brain – Guyenet
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, |
| 0:18.0 | Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body brute. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey and welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | This week's guest is Stephen Guillane. |
| 0:32.0 | Stephen is the author of the book The Hungry Brain. |
| 0:36.1 | And so obviously in this show we talk a lot about hunger. |
| 0:39.7 | He defines what hunger is. |
| 0:41.9 | And one of my favorite things about his book and about the work. defines what we |
| 0:43.7 | hunger is and one of my favorite things about his book and about the work that |
| 0:45.4 | Stephan is doing is that he really takes away a lot of the shame |
| 0:50.1 | around eating. |
| 0:51.1 | I've always thought that what we eat is is about like |
| 0:56.7 | willpower and people that are able to control what they eat are stronger and better and he really takes he puts that in a different light and he helps |
| 1:08.1 | reframe that so that it takes the the shame the guilt around a lot of the decisions that we make. So he does that by describing |
| 1:17.0 | the processes and impulses that happen in our brain that drive our the decisions that we make surrounding food. |
| 1:26.4 | We talk about cravings and why we crave foods that are unhealthy for us. |
| 1:32.1 | We talk about what stress and sleep have to do with |
| 1:34.6 | hunger and then finally and maybe most importantly we talk about how we can |
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