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Gut Reactions
- The Science of Weight Gain and Loss
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Summary
How much do you really know about how the human body works, and how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most of us have read about at least one fad diet, we're left wondering about the greater biochemistry, psychology, sociology, and physiology of the obesity crisis in the United States.
Gut Reactions by chemist Simon Quellen Field shows us how our bodies react to food and the environment, and how our brain affects what and how much we eat, and in turn, is affected by what we eat. It shows why some diets work for some people but not for others, based on genetics, previous weight history, brain chemistry, environmental cues, and social pressures. It explores how dozens of hormones affect hunger and satiety and interact with the brain and the gut to regulate feeding behavior. And it explains the addictive nature of foods that interact with the same dopamine and opioid receptors in the brain that cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, and nicotine do.
Whether you're looking to lose weight, put on muscle mass, or simply understand how your metabolism or gut microbiome is affecting your food cravings, Field has the scientific answers for you.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-10-21
TRIGGERING CONTENT/COMMENTS weight, eating etc.
please be aware that there are comments and contents within this book that can trigger someone with eating disorders, disordered thoughts etc.
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- Satesh
- 19-09-22
Good information
Lot of new things. It was practical
However spent too much time describing bacteria etc. Not like we can do anything wt that sorta details. Narration was rather poor though
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- grubs
- 12-02-23
Clear scientific explanation
Made sense, now to try it out .
Clear explanation of why diets don’t work and the poison that is sugar
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- Antoine Lacour
- 30-06-23
Excellent information
If you aren't already interested in the subject, you might find this boring as there isn't really any narrative. However I found this very engaging, a dense stream of solid information.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-02-22
Helped make sense of weight gain
I have plenty of books like this but somehow this one made more sense to me. Love the way the short chapters are broken down. Great explanation of Type 2 diabetes. Good tips on helping your body maintain homeostasis. Will be recommending to friends and family....is there a sequel by this author?
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- Anonymous User
- 10-10-22
Very informative
Like most scientific book it would lend itself better to written media than audio, but still, it goes down reasonably well, all the information is very well given and justified and plenty of actionable advice is given. Great read overall.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-01-23
Good book, however…
I’d recommend reading the physical version of this book to anyone who isn’t familiar with many of the concepts/terms mentioned. I found myself confused or having to pauze and look up different concepts throughout the book because it got confusing as the book progressed. Having a physical book would allow you to flip back and forth through the pages more easily to find terms or concepts discussed in previous chapters. I am planning on getting the physical book because I believe a lot of the research discussed in this book is very helpful, especially for future reference. It’s harder to find particular theories back in an audiobook.
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- Iulia
- 02-08-23
Highly informative book.
The start of the book was a bit difficult to follow because of all the official names of hormones and other influencing factors to obesity. If you stick with it, it is well worth it. It helps understand how the body works and why a formula for all could be ineffective. I would recommend
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- Darren McCann
- 14-06-22
Monotone drone
I was so looking forward to this book, great headline and something I'm very interested in. But after three very short chapters I had to turn off. The narration is so robotic and monotone, it's like a computer is reading the book. I tried to stick with it but just couldn't handle the sleepy boring voice. Another narrator like Jot Davis could make this a great book I'm sure, it's what it needs, a change of narrator. Very poor
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-10-22
The book should have started with the last chapter
The practical advice is randomly sprinkled across the chapters but neatly summarised in the last chapter. It's fine to have scientific explanations of what causes obesity, but I feel this was presented in a rather dry format.
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