How Our Hormones Control Our Hunger, Eating & Satiety
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How Our Hormones Control Our Hunger, Eating & Satiety
Ghrelin is the primary hunger hormone, activated to tell your body it’s time to eat. Leptin is the antihunger hormone, which tells you when you’re full. Ghrelin levels decline after a meal as leptin levels rise.
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Removing protein and fat in the diet may lead to overconsumption. There are natural satiety hormones (peptide YY, cholecystokinin) that respond to protein and fat. Eating pure carbohydrate does not activate these systems and leads to overconsumption (the second-stomach phenomenon).
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potential food shortage—leptin levels are low. The relative absence of leptin’s message tells the brain, “I don’t have enough body fat!” Your brain then tells you to eat more and move less, which serves to change your behavior until your body fat is within a safer range. You become hungrier (and probably eat more), your metabolism slows down (thank
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