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Stephan J. Guyenet

www.stephanguyenet.com
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The neuroscience of eating behavior and obesity. Author of The Hungry Brain. Founder and director of Red Pen Reviews. Neuroscience PhD, University of WA.

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Stephan J. Guyenet @sguyenet · Apr 11, 2023
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This article points out the shortcomings of the sugar industry critiques and is a great read. FWIW, I think sugar is unhealthy and I don't defend the sugar industry, I just think the anti-sugar arguments have been blown out of proportion.

Paper Feb 16, 2018
Was there ever really a “sugar conspiracy”?
by David Merritt Johns
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Stephan J. Guyenet @sguyenet · Mar 31, 2023
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Insightful thread

Tweet Mar 31, 2023
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d7-72c9-4b51-8ea9-dcfd99c42765 And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the i
by John Burn-Murdoch
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Stephan J. Guyenet @sguyenet · Mar 7, 2023
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It's a great book!

Book Mar 2, 2021
Burn: New Science Reveals How Metabolism Shapes Your Body, Health, and Longevity
by Herman Pontzer
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Stephan J. Guyenet @sguyenet · Feb 19, 2023
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Have you read The Secret of Our Success by @JoHenrich? Highly recommend

Book Oct 15, 2015
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by Joseph Henrich
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Stephan J. Guyenet @sguyenet · Nov 8, 2022
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Found this via a nice article by @sweatscience

Article Nov 8, 2022
What Happens When One Twin Exercises and the Other Doesn’t
by Alex Hutchinson
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Stephan J. Guyenet @sguyenet · Sep 23, 2022
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More interesting work on human energy expenditure variation from @JohnSpeakman4 group. Variation in energy expenditure is much greater between men vs. between women.

Paper 2022
Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females
by John Speakman
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Stephan J. Guyenet @sguyenet · Apr 10, 2022
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I've been wondering about this, so this article is helpful. If depression is adaptive, I don't understand how. Typo: "prostrate" -> "prostate"

Article Mar 30, 2022
It’s Easy to Blame Mental Health Issues on Tech. But Is It Fair?
by manvir singh
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Stephan J. Guyenet @sguyenet · Apr 8, 2022
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Nice article. A good addition would have been Richard Palmiter's dopamine-deficient mice. In my book I refer to them as "the laziest mice in the world".

Paper Dec, 1995
Dopamine-deficient mice are severely hypoactive, adipsic, and aphagic
by Qun-Yong Zhou and Richard Palmiter
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