hiero nog wat:
todd Moody wrote:
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>> Is there any information about what causes galanin levels to
>> rise? Is there perhaps a feedback system of some sort?
>Monty wrote
>The only other info I came across is that galanin is released when
>the body breaks down body fat, as it does during dieting or when
>several hours have passed between meals. When the body breaks down
>body fat, fat particles are released into the blood that travel to
>the hypothalamus and trigger galanin's release.
>
>Additionally, eating less fat drops galanin production and the more
>fat you eat, the more galanin you make and the more fat you crave.
>Dr. Leibowitz showed that those rats that ate diets that were more
>than 40 percent fat had twice as much galanin in a certain part of
>the hypothalamus than did the rats that ate a diet that contained
>less than 20 percent fat. So, in essence, the study seemed to show
>that a high-fat diet fundamentally changes the brain into a
>fat-craving machine.