OB is an online fat loss coach, the founder of OB Health Coaching, and host of the OB Health Podcast.

What if the biggest obstacle to losing weight isn't food, but your relationship with it? OB spent eight years trapped in an all-or-nothing relationship with food that tanked his hormones, before rebuilding his entire coaching philosophy around fixing it instead of restricting harder. So why do 95% of people who lose weight gain it back within five years, and what does a genuinely healthy relationship with food actually look like?

Expect to learn why chasing the next new fitness trend is really just shiny object syndrome, why 95% of people who lose weight gain it back within five years, how to rebuild a broken relationship with food by adding things in instead of taking them away, why fiber — not probiotics — is the real lever for gut health, the three-second test for whether your fish oil has gone rancid, why sleep trackers get your actual sleep data wrong roughly half the time, and why men and women should be training in the gym exactly the same way and much more…

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0:00 The Shiny Object Syndrome Ruining Your Diet

1:48 Why You Still Need A Coach When Info Is Free

3:34 She Cried Because She Could Eat Peanut Butter

7:41 My 8 Years Of Eating Only Chicken And Rice

9:31 Gaining 40 Pounds In A Month Fixed My Hormones

13:27 Coaching Men And Women Completely Differently

20:00 Your Gut Health Runs On Fiber, Not Probiotics

29:20 The Supplement Industry's Third-Party Testing Problem

35:52 Men And Women Should Train The Same

44:10 Loneliness Is As Deadly As Smoking

50:29 The Thermostat Theory Of Self-Sabotage

56:26 Defining Health Beyond How You Look

59:20 Sleep Trackers Are Gaslighting You

1:07:59 Closing Questions

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Judy Grisel is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Bucknell University and the author of Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction.

What actually drives addiction — genes or environment? Judy spent a decade lost to addiction, homeless and sick, before turning her own life into a research question and becoming one of the field's leading addiction neuroscientists. Her answer is close to fifty-fifty. So what tips the balance, and why do addiction rates keep climbing even though our genes haven't changed?

Expect to learn why cannabis may be more addictive than heroin, what's actually happening in the brain's dopamine pathway when we crave something, why the anticipation of a reward feels better than the reward itself, why 90% of people who develop an addiction start using before they turn 18, how boredom is a bigger risk factor than poverty, how Judy went from homeless and addicted to a tenured neuroscientist, why "resetting your dopamine" isn't as simple as people claim online and much more…

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0:00 Fifty-Fifty Split

2:55 Inside the Brain's Dopamine Pathway

5:10 Can You Actually Reset Your Dopamine

10:53 The Genetics of Addiction Risk

14:50 What to Do if You're Wired for It

17:20 Why Boredom Beats Poverty as a Risk Factor

20:41 Do We Really Have More Free Time Than Our Ancestors

25:13 Cannabis Is More Addictive Than Heroin

28:49 Judy's Own Decade Lost to Addiction

33:41 Why Her Recovery Actually Stuck

39:59 The Carl Hart Debate on Using Safely

46:00 Chase's Own Cold Turkey Moment

50:32 Closing Questions and Book Recs

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This is a solo episode — I talk through the fears I don't usually say out loud.

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