Fat hormone influences baseline dopamine levels and our motivation to eat
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 11:56
in Health & Medicine
As we all know from experience, people eat not only because they are hungry, but also because the food just simply tastes too good to pass up. Now, a new study in the August 6th Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, helps to explain how leptin, a hormone produced by fat tissue, influences that motivation to eat.