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#212 - The neuroscience of obesity | Stephan Guyenet, Ph.D.

The Peter Attia Drive

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Reward Circuits Adapt to This

Our brains are set up to not be satisfied with ordinary once we have gotten good stuff. Michael crashs did a really interesting neuro science study on this in mice. Mice normally they eat these unrefined food pellets, that would be like the default diet. But they much prefer these calory, dentse refined, high fat pellets. And if you give that to them, they will very much preferentially eat that over the healthier, unrefined pellets. It's just a radically different type of diet than we're accustomed to. I think in this regard, it's interesting to consider how reward circuits adapt to that.

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