Hunger hormones


(Marius the butter craving dude) #1

I was reading through the internet and found this article:


I find it strange that it dose not talk about insulin and insulin resistance.
I am also not quite sure if I understand leptin resistance and it’s relation to insulin resistance. Should we not talk more about insulin resistance ? The article totaly ignores insulin. I know that insulin and leptin influence each other.


(Bacon is a many-splendoured thing) #2

I’m not convinced that leptin resistance is even a thing. When the body becomes insulin resistant, it’s because cells actively down-regulate their insulin receptors to avoid having to deal with insulin. As I understand it, however, it’s not that the hypothalamus has down-regulated its leptin receptors, but that those receptors are occupied by another hormone which just happens to be—funnily enough—insulin!


(Marius the butter craving dude) #3

I do not claim to know the medical jargon… But what I got from reading stuff and from Peter Atila on YT is that leptin resistance is a sign of insulin resistance.
Yet in that article it dose go for “weight is hormon regulated” yet they talk about the wrong hormone.
And in the end recomand low fat but with the good carbs diet…


(Ken) #4

Here’s a better explanation. Be sure to read all three parts.