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TOP Highlights and Takeaways about Leptin, Fructose, Hydration and Mitochondria from Dr. Rick Johnson Interview

Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina

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The Causes of Leptin Resistance

leptin is secreted from our fat cells after we eat and it tells the hypothalamus in the brain that we have enough energy to stop eating. Overweight people become resistant to leptin because they are not able to produce their own so giving them leptin doesn't really do anything for us. When you give animals small injections of leptin they actually ate less, he says. He believes there's a lot of potential in drugs that can inhibit fructose kinase like they did in these studies which would prevent sugar cravings and obesity as well.

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