Wired To Want: Decoding the Hormones and Habits That Drive Obesity

WIRED TO WANT - Decoding the Hormones and Habits That Drive ObesityDr. Liv Uslar, MD, PhD is a physician and scientist specializing in functional medicine, with a focus on metabolism, hormones, and weight regulation. Her work has been shaped by years of research and clinical experience across institutions in Europe and the United States, including Harvard Medical School, the University of Hamburg, Mount Sinai, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She brings together scientific insight and a deeply personalized approach to help patients understand and restore the biology behind their health.Through years of working with patients struggling with weight, metabolism, and hormonal imbalance, Dr. Uslar began to see a clear pattern: overeating is not a failure of discipline—it is often the predictable result of a disrupted biological system.Drawing from both scientific research and real-world clinical experience, she reveals the hidden forces that shape appetite, cravings, and metabolic dysfunction.Why can’t you stop eating—even when you truly want to?If you’ve dieted, counted calories, or tried program after program—only to find yourself back where you started—Wired to Want will show you what is actually happening inside your body, and why willpower alone was never the answer.In this book, Dr. Uslar explains how the body’s natural hunger and fullness system becomes dysregulated—by modern food, chronic stress, poor sleep, and environmental influences—creating powerful biological drives that are often mistaken for a lack of control.In Wired to Want, you will learn:How hunger hormones become dysregulated and drive overeatingWhy “full” no longer feels like satisfactionHow highly processed modern food disrupts your body’s appetite signalsWhy stress and sleep loss make overeating far more likelyHow your environment quietly amplifies cravingsHow to begin resetting your appetite system—in months, not yearsThere are two kinds of people who overeat: those who continue blaming themselves, and those who begin to understand what is truly driving their behavior.For anyone ready to step out of guilt, stop fighting their body, and start working with their biology, Wired to Want is the first step. Read more