Dr. Robert Lustig
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That is your amygdala on fire.
And so the question is, what happened to the amygdala?
And I'm writing a book about it right now with my colleague, Dr. Alyssa Epple here at UCSF.
Okay.
Book will be titled the freeing the hostage brain because that's what we have.
We have a hostage brain.
We have a hostage situation.
where our brain is actually being held hostage by our amygdala because the brakes on the amygdala have basically failed.
Okay, so what are the brakes?
There are four of them.
So imagine you have a car, and a car has four wheels, and each wheel has a brake.
So you have four brakes.
What if one brake fails?
You're going to stop?
Yeah, rough ride, but you'll stop.
Get it fixed.
What if two brakes fail?
You're going to stop?
Eventually.
You're going to do any damage?