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Am I Destined To Be This Size?

Food, We Need To Talk

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How Does Your Environment Regulates Your Weight?

Our bodies have these hormon mechanisms like lepton that encourage us to find food and eat until we're full. But those same mechanisms are in competition with lots of other stimuli when comes to ending the meal. We just tend to keep on eating even when we're full, right? And we haven't even goten to the agooty related peptide yet. There's these neurons deep in the hypothalamis of your brain that they are sensing the energy state of the body. In his experiments in genetically modified mice, he can basically turn these nerons onenough whenever he wants, with a button. If we force these nurons on, it'll have another thanksgiving dinner

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