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#534 - Dr Stuart Ritchie - Why Is Behavioural Genetics Such A Hated Science?

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Is Everyone's Depression the Same?

There are many ways to get fat. You may be fat because you have downregulated ghrelin release so that the hormone that tells your stomach that it's empty, that signals to you to eat. There's a million different ways that you could do that or for you to be fit. Maybe you don't sleep so much. So you're always up early and because you're up early, it means that you go and exercise because you've got nothing else to do. That seems very much like a behavioral geneticist's answer. I spoke to Ploeman about a year ago and he was telling me, he says he has a predisposition for being fat. And he said,

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