by Stephan Guyenet
Guyenet argues that obesity is a brain problem, not a willpower problem, mapping how the lipostat, reward circuitry, and food-cue learning conspire to defend a higher body-fat set point in modern food environments. He integrates neuroscience with evolutionary biology to show why hyperpalatable foods hijack ancient appetite machinery.
In this collection, The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat references 4 other books.
It draws on Thinking, Fast and Slow, Behave and Why We Get Sick.
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Guyenet leans on Kahneman's dual-system framework to describe how the brain's fast, reward-driven 'lizard' system overrides slower executive control around food
Guyenet cites Sapolsky's neurobiology work on dopamine and reward to explain why food cues trigger compulsive eating in modern environments
Guyenet builds on Nesse's Darwinian-medicine framing that our appetites evolved for calorie scarcity, making the mismatch with modern food the root of obesity
Guyenet draws on McGonigal's willpower research to explain why decision fatigue and stress erode the prefrontal control needed to resist palatable food
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