660: Why We Eat Too Much with Andrew Jenkinson
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Why do you feel hungry, even when you’ve eaten plenty? What drives your cravings, second servings, and post-dinner sweet tooth? In this week’s episode, we dive into the untold story behind hunger and satiety signals with a leading bariatric surgeon. Discover how imbalanced hormones can fuel overeating, and how modern medicine and nutrition can help restore energy balance. From groundbreaking treatments to the science of hormones, this episode is your guide to understanding and overcoming the root causes of hunger and weight gain.
Listen and learn:
- The critical role Omega-3 fatty acids play in weight management
- How leptin resistance impacts your hunger and energy balance
- The current state of bariatric surgery and who it helps most
- How GLP-1 agonist drugs are revolutionizing weight loss treatment
- Why weight regain is common after surgery, medication, or fad diets
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https://www.laparoscopicconsultant.co.uk/
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Andrew Jenkinson is a bariatric surgeon and author specializing in the treatment of obesity and metabolic health. He is the author of Why We Eat (Too Much), which explores the biological and psychological causes of overeating and weight gain.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a question for you. Why are you hungry, even when you've already eaten plenty? |
| 0:06.7 | What drives your cravings, your second cravings, and post-meal sweet tooth? |
| 0:10.7 | In this week's episode, we'll dive into the rarely spoken about world of hunger and satiety signals |
| 0:16.3 | that can lead someone to obesity. You'll discover how imbalanced hormones can fuel overeating and how |
| 0:23.3 | modern medicine and nutrition, fortunately, do offer some solutions at this juncture in history. |
| 0:29.2 | If you're new here, this is age less and live more with Lucas Rockwood. I'm a yoga teacher and |
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| 1:03.8 | program at yogabody.com. Welcome, everyone. It's Lucas here. Today's show is called Why |
| 1:10.5 | We Eat Too Much. I'm joined here with Andrew Jenkinson. |
| 1:13.7 | Andrew is a bariatric surgeon. He's an author and an expert in metabolic health. He wrote a book called Why We Eat Too Much. It explores the causes of overeating and weight gain. |
| 1:23.0 | You can find all of his work at his website, Andrewjenkinson.com, or his new venture, mymetabology.com, which we'll link up to you in the show notes. |
| 1:31.9 | Andrew, welcome to the show. |
| 1:33.4 | As you to be here, Lucas. |
| 1:36.0 | Unfortunately, when you mention weight loss and bariatric surgery or even JLP 1 agonists, any kind of weight loss these days, the almost knee-jerk reaction |
| 1:45.2 | from probably 50% of the public is people are lazy, you should eat less, exercise more, |
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