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

The Peter Attia Drive

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Obesity Research - Is There a Conventional Model?

The energy balance model says body fat is a regulated process. Its body fatness, i should say, is a regulated variable. It's regulated by the ene intake and expenditure via the brain. None of this is really regulated. It's just however many calories you happen to passively eat, or how much you decide to exercise. And then your fat tissue is a result of that.

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