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You've Lost That Hungry Feeling

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The Future of Appetite

Bariatric surgery does seem to effectively rewire our appetite, but it's a little bit drastic honestly. Some patients who go through with this eventually gain back a lot of what they had lost. If Andrew could tease out all the ways bariatric surgery is changing people's fullness and hunger, could he make a drug that does the same thing? That is the billion dollar question. But in the meantime, research like this is revealing fascinating new pathways that are regulating our feelings of hunger and fullness.

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