Overeating and The Hungry Brain with Stephan Guyenet | EP#73
Stephan Guyenet, PhD, explains how our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t care about how you look in a trisuit next summer. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -The Food Reward system -The brains valuation of food and Optimal Foraging Theory -Delay Discounting and the Stanford Marshmallow experiment -How the lipostat works against your attempts to reduce body fat -Satiety, and the factors that can increase (and decrease) our satiety per calorie SHOWNOTES…
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