Podcast
The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra described the book as the most convincing model for why obesity is rising and why many people fail to keep weight loss despite initial success.
And Stephan Guillenet has looked, and I put this very lightly, a lot deeper than that. Guillenet is a neurobiologist by training... and his book, The Hungry Brain, is to me the most convincing model f...
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Episode: Our Brains Weren’t Designed for This Kind of Food
Ezra described the book as the most convincing model for why obesity is rising and why many people fail to keep weight loss despite initial success.
And Stephan Guillenet has looked, and I put this very lightly, a lot deeper than that. Guillenet is a neurobiologist by training... and his book, The Hungry Brain, is to me the most convincing model for why obesity is rising year after year, why so many who try so hard to change their waistlines fail even after they sometimes first succeed, and why our individualized narratives around this are so cruel and also so wrong.
Guillenet's book came out in 2017. And in the past year or so, we've seen the introduction of new weight loss drugs that fit The Hungry Brain model perfectly.