Cambridge Weight Loss Scientist: Your Brain Fights Weight Loss! Why Diets Are So Hard To Stick To, The Truth About Calories & How To Keep Weight Off | Prof Giles Yeo

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Professor Giles Yeo MBE has spent 30 years studying one of the most misunderstood questions in health: why some people feel hungrier, gain weight more easily and find it much harder to keep weight off than others. He is Professor of Molecular Neuroendocrinology at the University of Cambridge, where his research focuses on how our genes, hormones and brain control appetite and body weight. In 2026, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences for his internationally recognised work on the genetics and neuroscience of obesity. And one of his central messages challenges the way many of us think about weight. Two people can be faced with exactly the same food, but experience very…