The hormone that regulates the appetite, also determine how much a person “likes” a food
The hormone that alerts us when we are full, also regulates our desire to eat some foods, said a group of scientists, in a discovery that explains why people get fat. This discovery could become a source of new treatments for the obesity.
The research shows that those patients with a rare genetic disorder, because they don’t have the hormone called leptin, eat less after they have received injections with this hormone, according to the researcher of the Cambridge University who headed the research (Dr. Farooqi).
Some previous investigations showed that the hormone is not useful when we want to lose weight if we have normal levels of leptin, but the scientists don’t still understand exactly how it works, said Farooqui.
“By studying patients who have no leptin and then treating them with leptin, we can tell what it is doing”, said Farooqui in a telephone interview. “It gives a clear look at how leptin operates in the brain.”
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