How Our Hormones Control Our Hunger, Eating & Satiety

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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As you approach eating, there is an anxiety related to it. The lateral hypothalamus controls feeding.