269: Your brain on comfort food | Mitzi Joi Williams, M.D.

Mitzi Joi Williams, M.D.: "If you treat yourself a lot, you begin to crave those treats more and more; versus if you are eating healthy, you crave those things more.” Williams, a board-certified neurologist and fellowship-trained MS specialist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the neurological reason you reach for comfort food (and how to break the habit), plus: *How to sharpen you mind during downtime* *What loneliness looks like in your brain* *How overwhelming stress can result in physical symptoms* *The best foods for your brain health* *What gut health means for MS* Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected].  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices