You have hunger and satiety hormones. Grehlin is a hormone that tells you it is time to eat. It came from your ancestors to insure survival. When you go without eating Grehlin increases. After you eat Grehlin decreases for awhile until it is time for your next meal. Ghrelin, seems to orchestrate not only pleasure-seeking and physiological hungers but “stress eating” as well. Leptin is your satiety hormone. It tells your brain that you are full after a meal in a normal weight person. All obese people have lost the ability to get the signal that they a full. This is called leptin resistance. It is simular to insulin resistance that many obese people have and often go together giving you a double wammy. It also has a lot of the same health risk. Your brain instead is saying to store fat. The fatter you get the more hormones you have. This makes us different than normal weight people. It is one reason it is so hard to
lose weight. It is not that you lack will power. It's your hormones. Leptin resistance is linked to high fructose and a high fat diet from modern diets. Its not that you ate to much fruit. High fructose corn syrup, sugar (half fructose) combined with palmitic acid from butter, dairy, beef and cheese is what seems to me linked to Leptin resistance. Eating this combo can make animals over eat for up to three days. Have you ever been out of control for days? Healthy fats are not linked to over eating. In fact they might help reverse it. It seems normal people and obese people also respond to
exercise different as far as reducing hunger does not happen if your leptin resistant.
Sleep or lack of, is also part of your hunger hormones. Do you
sleep good?
Leptin controls bone mass. It might be why I have bad bones and can't control my blood sugar. Osteocalcin is a hormone in your bones. Osteocalcin, a hormone that does seem to have a relationship with fat cells but also does much more in the way of regulating metabolism and insulin receptivity. Osteocalcin appears to control blood glucose and fat deposits, and increases not only insulin sensitivity but also seems to raise insulin production in the pancreas. No other substance in the body appears to accomplish both tasks.
Exercise, especially working with weights, does build bone mass, which in turn increases the amount of osteocalcin that bones produce. The more osteocalcin, the better our insulin regulation and the better we can control our blood glucose levels.
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