The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts that Make Us Overeat w/ Dr. Stephan Guyenet
Channel: Performance Nutrition Podcast
Date: 2017-04-24

In this episode, Dr. Bubbs sits down with expert neuroscientist and obesity researcher Dr. Stephan Guyenet PhD to talk about his new book The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts that Make Us Overeat. Dr. Guyenet discusses the fundamental role of the brain in controlling "body-fatness" and how our brains are hard-wired to seek out calorically dense foods. 

He also explains how the neurotransmitter dopamine plays a fundamental role in our "food experience" and ultimately the evolutionary mismatch between how our brains are hard-wired to seek out calories and our modern environment of calorie-dense, nutrient-poor processed foods. 
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