As a clinician, my primary goal is to help my patients. While I am fascinated by scientific theories, I am far more interested in whether those theories can be applied to practical solutions for the patients that I work with.
I feel grateful for this perspective, because I believe it helps me to keep an open mind and not get too attached to one theory or another. My patients are constantly teaching me that no ...
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This week we're happy to have Stephan Guyenet from Whole Health Source back to discuss the body fat set point and food reward theories of obesity and weight regulation.
Questions covered include:
How does the food reward system work? Why did it evolve?
Why do certain flavors we don't initially like become appealing over time?
How does industrially processed food affect the food reward system?
What's the most effective diet used to make rats obese in a research setting? ...
Dr. Stephan Guyenet will be joining us again on the podcast to discuss his developing theories on obesity and weight regulation. Stephan is a researcher at the University of Washington studying the neurobiology of fat regulation. He also writes one of my favorite blogs on nutrition and health, Whole Health Source.
If you have not already, I recommend you listen to my first podcast with Stephan. This show will build on material we discussed during ...
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