Gut Reactions

The Science of Weight Gain and Loss

By: Simon Quellen Field

Narrated by: David Marantz

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.

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©2019 Simon Quellen Field (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

Informative but not intriguing

Lots of great information about nutrition, exercise and vitamins. However, the style was quite boring. I worked through it and learned a lot but did not find the book enjoyable or intriguing.

A very comprehensive book on a complex topic

Narration a bit dry,but then there is are lot of facts being delivered that don't really lend itself to emotive reading. The content is outstanding, its a complex topic so it gets deep with the details, just what I was looking for.

Fantastic Info!

Learn the basics and so much more about the science behind weight gain and loss. Provides framework and then goes deeper, but also has practical application suggestions, backed up with scientific data. Worth listening to more than once!

Fantastic and relatively exhaustive look at digestion obesity

Very good look at the complexity of obesity and digestion and the interplay of nutrients of all varieties and how they improve or worsen health.

More than I expected

This book was so good. It had so much more information than I was expecting. Highly recommend it!