Fat hormone influences baseline dopamine levels and our motivation to eat

Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 05:14 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 6th August Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, helps to explain how leptin, a hormone produced by fat tissue, influences that motivation to eat...

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