Does comfort food really comfort us?
The Food Chain
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Feeling Full Hormone
We found that these fatty infusions made them less sad when we induced sad mood in these people. We know that fat is doing a lot of things, even though we use a low dose it is going to stimulate specialized cells in our stomach and small intestine. And then we know that these hormones through various ways through the blood are going to regulate whether they're hungry or satiated. This is happening primarily in a small region of the brain called the hypothalamus.
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