How does leptin affect hunger?
Hunger is a very powerful and deep-seated drive that, if stimulated long enough, will make you eat and store more energy. Controlling hunger is one way that leptin controls energy storage. And the only way to eat less in the long-term is to not be hungry. If a person is getting too fat, the extra fat produces more leptin which is supposed to tell an area of the brain in the hypothalamus that there is too much fat stored, more should not be stored, and the excess burned. Therefore, signals are sent to stop being hungry, to stop eating, to stop storing fat and to start burning some extra fat off. More recently, it has been found that leptin not only changes brain chemistry, but can also “rewire” these very important areas of the brain that control hunger and metabolism and reverse leptin-resistance. How do people become leptin-resistant? As you can imagine this has really caught the attention of the scientific community, and the subject of much research. Most likely people become leptin-
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