How Our Hormones Control Our Hunger, Eating & Satiety
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How Our Hormones Control Our Hunger, Eating & Satiety
How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods
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Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
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As you approach eating, there is an anxiety related to it. The lateral hypothalamus controls feeding.
Andrew Huberman • How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods
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The locus cerulius releases epinephrine and has a lot of different functions. It creates alertness (can be experienced as stress, anxiety, excitement) while approaching food and activated the lateral hypothalamus to inhibit feeding. As we eat the mechanisms for calmness kick in, which is often impacted by the signals from the vagal nerve. People ba... See more
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leptin. Leptin is the “satiety” hormone that helps regulate energy balance by inhibiting hunger, and it plummets with sleep deprivation. Leptin’s job is to control energy expenditure through its action on the hypothalamus, the brain’s master metabolic regulator.
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
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.
Dave Asprey • Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof Book 6)
The brain leads to associate the taste, the likes and dislike, with the signals from the gut, which measures what you need (protein, sugar, fat) and causes craving.
Andrew Huberman • Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
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Another hormone affected by sleep is ghrelin. Secreted by the stomach, ghrelin tells your brain when it’s time to be hungry. Your ghrelin level increases just before meals or when the stomach is empty and decreases after meals or when the stomach is stretched. This hormone can also impact your behavior: when mice and humans are injected with ghreli
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