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An emotional system and the few forric system gets very -- and that can trigger an addictive process. >> does the stomach tell me i'm hungry or the brain? >> it's your brain that tells you you're hungry. but we think of the stomach as our second brain because your intestinal tract actually produces more chemicals that work on the brain than the brain does itself. so your body is really one system. i think of your brain as the supercomputer that is running everything, but it's all kper connected. >> larry: so would the brain tell me to overeat? >> sometimes it does. if people have damage to som...

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With deep brain stimulation and running wires to certain parts of the brain to help her to feel a lack of craving and it shows some promise but i would like as a clinical psychologist i think what are the circumstances besides the physiology that are going on that can be affected. >> larry: back to basics, why does the brain do dumb things? >> that's a great question. >> that's a difficult question. i think that we have a lot of -- the brain as dr. drew was saying is messy. evolutionary messy. higher order and higher thinking mammals our executive function can get in the way of our deeper brai...