What Really Drives Obesity Is This Vasopressin?

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Vasopressin is also the hormone that prevents you from peeing overnight. When we, when we block that receptor, we could block how sugar causes obesity. And so it's really, you know, leptin is the hormone that stimulates satiety makes you, it's the hormone that tells you when to quit eating.

Dr. Richard Johnson is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, and is a clinician, educator, and researcher. For more than 20 years, he has led research on the cause of obesity and diabetes, with special interest in the role of sugar (especially fructose) and uric acid. His latest book, Nature Wants Us to Be Fat: The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent—and Reverse—It, is out now. Full show notes: https://maxlugavere.com/podcast/265