Dr. Peeke discusses food addictions.

Here’s a link to the Yale Food Addiction Scale.

Here’s a link to Why Stress Causes People To Overeat

Part 1 The Science

Part 2 The Solutions

Part 3 Q & A

Published on Nov 19, 2013
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Dr. Pamela Peeke — Physician, Scientist & Edutainer
“Your Brain’s Reward Center: Hacked by a Cupcake”

Physician, Scientist and Edutainer, Dr. Pam Peeke, explores how the most sophisticated machine in the universe—the human brain—can develop unhealthy patterns, including food addictions, that can lead to a continuous cycle of poor decisions. Offering solutions, Dr. Peeke shows us how we can harness the emerging science of epigenetics to make lifestyle changes, including Transcendental Meditation, that can actually transform our own DNA.

BIO: Dr. Pamela Peeke is an internationally renowned physician, scientist, and expert in the fields of nutrition, stress, and fitness. As the lifestyle expert for WebMD’s 90 million members, host of Could You Survive?, chief medical correspondent for nutrition and fitness for Discovery Health TV, and the founder of the Peeke Performance Center for Healthy Living™, the “doc who walks the talk” lives the message she teaches. If Dr. Peeke’s “edutaining” wit and wisdom as one of the most requested physician speakers in America isn’t enough, she has taken active inspiration through other mediums. Triathlete, marathoner, and mountain climber, Dr. Peeke is also a New York Times bestselling author; regular in-studio medical commentator for CNN, the Today show, Good Morning America, Fox, and Nightline; and columnist/contributing editor for numerous national magazines and online communities.