1 hr 10 min
#006: Jud Brewer, MD, PhD - Why Curiosity is the Cure to Craving Man's Search for Medicine
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- Health & Fitness
Today’s episode is with Dr. Judson Brewer. Dr. Brewer is a MD, PhD psychiatrist who has established himself as a world-recognized expert in the field of habit change and the science of awareness and curiosity.
After completing his undergraduate degree at Princeton, he went on to complete his medical training and doctoral research at WashU in St. Louis. He continued on to Yale for his psychiatry residency and chief residency, and he’s now an associate professor of psychiatry at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. He is also the Director of Research and Innovation at the renowned Mindfulness Center at Brown University, and he’s a research affiliate at MIT here in Boston.
During his productive research career, Dr. Brewer has studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using fMRI and EEG neurofeedback. He’s incredibly well-published, with numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His TED talk has had a massive impact, with almost 15 million views now here at the end of 2019. He’s been featured in Time magazine (in the top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, Businessweek, and 60 Minutes. He is the author of The Craving Mind, which explains why we get hooked on everything from substances to love to social media, to thinking itself - and how we can break habits that don’t serve us.
In 2012, he founded MindSciences to provide greater access to the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions for anxiety, disordered eating, and smoking. The apps he’s released, Unwinding anxiety, eat right now, and craving to quit, combine mindfulness and motivation science to reshape habits that we desire to change. These apps are not just for research, they’re available to the public. If you’re interested in changing your eating habits or your relationship with anxiety, Dr. Brewer has offered listeners 50% off the Eat Right Now and Unwinding Anxiety app, using the promo code “ZPUA” for Unwinding Anxiety and “ZPERN” for Eat Right Now. You can find out more about these apps and get access to a ton of other free resources including free healthcare provider training at www.drjud.com. If you’re interested in following his work, you can also find him on twitter @judbrewer.
In this episode, we discuss the neuroscience behind habit formation and why it’s so hard to change, as well as his research showing how simple awareness training is actually more effective for smoking cessation than the standard-of-care. We also talked about how we should maybe ditch the word “mindfulness” altogether and the role of psychedelics in habit change and well-being.
Today’s episode is with Dr. Judson Brewer. Dr. Brewer is a MD, PhD psychiatrist who has established himself as a world-recognized expert in the field of habit change and the science of awareness and curiosity.
After completing his undergraduate degree at Princeton, he went on to complete his medical training and doctoral research at WashU in St. Louis. He continued on to Yale for his psychiatry residency and chief residency, and he’s now an associate professor of psychiatry at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. He is also the Director of Research and Innovation at the renowned Mindfulness Center at Brown University, and he’s a research affiliate at MIT here in Boston.
During his productive research career, Dr. Brewer has studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using fMRI and EEG neurofeedback. He’s incredibly well-published, with numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His TED talk has had a massive impact, with almost 15 million views now here at the end of 2019. He’s been featured in Time magazine (in the top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, Businessweek, and 60 Minutes. He is the author of The Craving Mind, which explains why we get hooked on everything from substances to love to social media, to thinking itself - and how we can break habits that don’t serve us.
In 2012, he founded MindSciences to provide greater access to the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions for anxiety, disordered eating, and smoking. The apps he’s released, Unwinding anxiety, eat right now, and craving to quit, combine mindfulness and motivation science to reshape habits that we desire to change. These apps are not just for research, they’re available to the public. If you’re interested in changing your eating habits or your relationship with anxiety, Dr. Brewer has offered listeners 50% off the Eat Right Now and Unwinding Anxiety app, using the promo code “ZPUA” for Unwinding Anxiety and “ZPERN” for Eat Right Now. You can find out more about these apps and get access to a ton of other free resources including free healthcare provider training at www.drjud.com. If you’re interested in following his work, you can also find him on twitter @judbrewer.
In this episode, we discuss the neuroscience behind habit formation and why it’s so hard to change, as well as his research showing how simple awareness training is actually more effective for smoking cessation than the standard-of-care. We also talked about how we should maybe ditch the word “mindfulness” altogether and the role of psychedelics in habit change and well-being.
1 hr 10 min