Medical Doctor and Professor Judson Brewer is our guest today in Episode 1239 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

Judson Brewer MD PhD from JudsonBrewer.com is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. He is the Director of Research at the Center for Mindfulness and associate professor in Medicine and Psychiatry at UMass Medical School. He is also adjunct faculty at Yale University, and a research affiliate at MIT. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, trained US Olympic coaches, and his work has been featured on 60 Minutes, TED (6,000,000+ views; 4th most viewed talk of 2016), TEDMED, TEDx, Time Magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, BBC, NPR, Businessweek and others. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments.

Listen in as Jimmy talks with Dr. Brewer about his new book The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits, his work helping people break bad habits and form new healthy ones, and why it is so difficult to be healthy in a world that is constantly targeting us with addictive behaviors.

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