The hormone neurotensin can help predict whether people are able to maintain weight loss.
br>The hormone is being investigated for the first time in connection with weight loss caused by a low-calorie diet.
“Like other appetite hormones, neurotensin is released from the gut when we eat and information is collected in the brain that determines whether we should continue to eat or feel full. Weight loss leads to a decrease in the amount of the hormone neurotensin. that weight loss also leads to a decrease in the amount of neurotensin in people.People who continued to lose weight released more neurotensin than people who regained weight,” says dietitian Vasilisa Ponomareva, commenting on the study specifically for Medikforum.
Studying Appetite Hormones
People who have undergone bariatric surgery to lose weight release more neurotensin when they eat. It is this understanding that inspired researchers to study the effects of neurotensin on weight loss.
Other gut hormones released in large amounts after obesity surgery help explain why people who have undergone obesity surgery are able to maintain weight loss. But no one has studied the role of neurotensin in relation to diet.
However, when researchers first discovered leptin, a key hormone in weight regulation, they learned that it decreases during weight loss. This may indicate that increasing the amount of leptin in the body causes people to lose weight.
It turns out that people living with obesity are resistant to leptin, which means that they do not respond with weight loss on the hormone.
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