The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #1267 - Gary Taubes & Stephan Guyenet
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- March 20, 2019
- Duration
- 2h 37m
- Channel
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Gary Taubes is a journalist, writer and low-carbohydrate diet advocate. Stephan Guyenet, PhD, is a neuroscientist and is also the founder and director of Red Pen Reviews.
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Stephan Guyenet, Joe Rogan Experience #1267 - Gary Taubes & Stephan Guyenet explores brain vs. Insulin: Joe Rogan Moderates Big Obesity Mechanism Showdown Joe Rogan hosts a long-form debate between Gary Taubes and Stephan Guyenet on the root causes of obesity and metabolic disease. Guyenet argues that body fatness is primarily regulated by the brain—via appetite, energy expenditure, and hormones like leptin—interacting with a modern, highly palatable food environment. Taubes argues obesity is fundamentally a disorder of fat storage driven by hormones (especially insulin) and that refined carbohydrates and sugar are the key culprits, with overeating and inactivity being downstream effects. They clash repeatedly over how to interpret genetics, feeding studies, historical population data, and the role of sugar, with little consensus but clear articulation of two competing paradigms.
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