Sublime

Hunger is probably an even more powerful switch than metabolism when our bodies try and protect us from weight loss. We now know that the hunger switch is in the part of the brain controlling our body weight. It is a small pea-sized area at the base of the brain, just behind our eyes, called the hypothalamus. But its small size should not be

By altering the ingredients of the idea menu they are exposed to, we might, in turn, minimize the dangerous inputs to the processes of belief and network updating.

Balance far from equilibrium

The slow drip of cortisol from chronic stress not only kickstarts reward eating in many people but also erodes their self-restraint. This creates “a potent formula for obesity,” wrote Potenza. “[Because] food is an inexpensive resource for providing…short-term pleasure and relief from discomfort.”

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According to the National Institutes of Health, 74 percent of American men and 33 percent of children are now overweight or obese. Our Bliss Point got hacked, and it’s killing us.

When I went through medical school and residency in the 1990s, I was taught that people with depression, anxiety, attention deficit, cognitive distortions, sleep problems, and so on have brains that don’t work the way they’re supposed to, just like people with diabetes have a pancreas that doesn’t secrete enough insulin. My job, according to the