Wed, Mar-17-04, 20:45
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Posts: 2,018
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 320/220/195
BF:
Progress: 80%
Location: Pensacola, FL
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Originally Posted by Nancy LC
Cool! Glad to see they're making progress on identifying the mechanics of appetite and weight gain. Whatever drug company first gets through FDA approvals with something like this is gonna make a pile.
I'm all for brain drugs. I'm sure people with depression and other disorders of the brain and endocrine system are pretty happy about them too.
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They've known Leptin controls appetite for a while now. The most interesting studies on hunger are those performed on the Hypothalamuses of Rats. They found when they lesioned [burned out] certain parts of the Hypothalamus that the Rats lost all interest in eating, but lesioning other parts caused the Rats to become obese. They found that when those parts were stimulated, they got the opposite effect. THey found that lesioning one part of the Hypothalamus even caused the overrelease of insulin. It has been known for at least 30 years that these portions of the Brain modulate hunger and fat storage in response to changes in Insulin and Blood Sugar Levels as well as to changes in Metabolism.
http://www.albion.edu/psychology/fa...y101/hunger.htm
http://www.magnet.neuro.fsu.edu/Research/hypo1.html
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~ns166vc/Notes/Appetite.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...80506080957.htm
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