STEP ONE SCIENCE WORKSHOP

Welcome to the Step One Science Workshop! We are going to take a deep dive into the science of compulsive overeating and food addiction. We’ll explore how the science explains the physical allergy, the mental obsession, and the strange mental blank spot. We hope this workshop will help you to take Step One at a much deeper level and help you get (and stay) abstinent.

Session 1 (January 10 & 14) – The leader shares her story including how learning the science impacted her ability to get abstinent and stay abstinent.

• • Read SOS Study Guide pages 1-10 prior to this session.
  • Link to Session 1 Video

 

Session 2 (January 17 & 21) – Physical Allergy-Part 1 – We explore how insulin resistance and leptin resistance drive us to eat despite our desperate desire to be abstinent.

• • Read SOS Study Guide pages 11-17 prior to this session.
  • Link to Session 2 Video

 

Session 3 – Physical Allergy-Part 2 (January 24 & 28) – We explore the starvation response including how it leads us to relapse back into our disease.

• • Read SOS Study Guide pages 18-20 prior to this session.
  • Link to Session 3 Video

 

Session 4 – Mental Obsession-Part 1 (January 31 & February 4) – We look at how dopamine and the reward system in the brain cause our “effect.” We also see that science can explain the “strange mental blank spot.”

• • Read SOS Study Guide pages 21-28 prior to this session.
  • Link to Session 4 Video

 

Session 5 – Mental Obsession-Part 2 (February 7 & 11) – We explore the effects of stress and cortisol on both our physical allergy and mental obsession.

• • Read SOS Study Guide pages 29-32 prior to this session.
  • Link to Session 5 Video

 

Session 6 – Self-Care (February 14 & 18) – We look at the science of sleep and epigenetics as methods of self-care in order to help us mitigate the effects of our physical allergy and mental obsession.

• • Read SOS Study Guide pages 33-36 prior to this session.
  • Link to Session 6 Video

 

Session 7 – Conclusions (February 21 & 25)– We go over the lessons that the leader has learned over her 5-year journey of investigating the science of our disease including ways you may apply them to your own program.

1. • Read SOS Study Guide pages 37-41 prior to this session.
   • Link to Session 7 Video

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THIS WORKSHOP

This workshop is based on the information in the following books:

• 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety by Allen Berger, PhD
• Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, MD
• Bright Line Eating by Susan Pierce Thompson, PhD
• Fat Chance by Robert Lustig, MD
  
• Genius Foods by Max Lugavere
• The Hacking of the American Mind by Robert Lustig, MD
• The Hungry Brain by Stephan Guyenet, PhD
• The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, MD
• Metabolical by Robert Lustig, MD
• The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer, MD
• The Molecule of More by Daniel Lieberman, MD
• Nature Wants Us to Be Fat by Richard Johnson, MD
• Outlive by Peter Attia, MD
• The Pleasure Trap by Doug Lisle, PhD
• Processed Food Addiction by Joan Ifland et al.