113 - What’s Eating You with Glenn Livingston

Krisstina welcomes bestselling author and Ph.D., Glenn Livingston. Disillusioned by what traditional psychology had been doing to address binge eating and other food-related addictions, Glenn began researching the nature of binge eating. Having personally struggled with obesity and binge eating, Glenn took a passionate approach to finding treatments to alleviate this issue within himself and, eventually, his patients. His book, Never Binge Again, provides insights into this epidemic, as well as strategies and programs to help those suffering to reprogram how they think about and consume food. In this episode, we talk about food addiction and the physiological effects it can have on our bodies. Glenn discusses how and why the food industry produces food with the intention of causing food addictions, leading to uncontrollable binge eating. He talks about the two parts of our brain that respond to pleasure and how binge eating is an activation of the fight-or-flight response. Glenn shares methodologies for how to break the addiction, including four categories of rules he recommends combatting binge eating. Finally, Glenn discusses the importance of character over willpower when it comes to dealing with addiction. For full show notes visit: http://wealthywellthy.life/113 Youtube link: https://youtu.be/FRf39Pwyg-k