You've Lost That Hungry Feeling
Gastropod
The Hypothalamus and Hunger
In the 1940s, a researcher in Chicago decided to see what happened if he deliberately damaged the hypothalamus in rats and his rats became really fat. The idea was that if you're impinging on this important part of the anatomy of the brain, you're also changing eating behavior. For a long time, there was just no sense of how this was actually working in humans.
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