Ghrelin Articles:

Big Pharma Eyes Your Stomach

Scientists inject ghrelin (pronounced GRAY-lin) into the blood of normal weight people. While measuring their brain activity these subjects are shown pictures of food and the ghrelin makes them drool. Core animal pleasure is activated. Yes, they must have it. Stimulus-response, a modern Pavlovian dog experiment.

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Ghrelin Elevated by Sluggish Thyroid Function

When you eat less food, especially on a diet, there comes a time when weight loss slows down. At this time you will start getting an increase in hunger that is coming from a hormone signal in your stomach called ghrelin. New research shows that ghrelin levels go up (meaning increased hunger) as thyroid function is impaired and becomes sluggish.

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Looking Back for Answers on Stress Eating

A great deal of eating behavior is buried in subconscious brain circuitry that was developed in your early life. Such programming is more like computer hardware than software, which is why many of us struggle to “change the eating programs.”

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Digestive Inflammation and Food Cravings

Several new lines of research are showing that ghrelin levels are elevated during digestive distress in an effort to coordinate repair of your digestive tract. The adverse side effect of elevated ghrelin is that your appetite will elevate and you will eat more food, making you gain weight.

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Your Stomach and Cardiovascular Health

Just about everyone now realizes that the size of your waistline reflects your degree of cardiovascular risk. A new angle on the issue has emerged and it has to do with your stomach itself, as opposed to the amount of extra belly fat. It has to do with your stomach’s hunger signal, ghrelin.

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Hunger Hormone Helps Alleviate Stress and Depression

In a strange twist of events your stomach’s hunger hormone, ghrelin, may help to protect you against stress-induced anxiety and depression. This “gift” of protection comes at a price – eating too much food in response to stress. This new information shows just how powerful stress eating can be, as this type of survival signaling is wired to your core subconscious brain.

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Intense Aerobics Lowers Appetite

The struggle with appetite is a key point in the battle of the bulge. One tool to stay on track is aerobic exercise. A new study shows that a 1 hour period of intense aerobics significantly lowers ghrelin, your stomach’s hunger signal.

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Excess Appetite Causes Abdominal Fat

Researchers have discovered that your stomach’s appetite signal, ghrelin, can also turn on gene signals that result in accumulation of stomach fat. The study means that rather than doing crunches to flatten your stomach spend more time getting your appetite under control and your stomach is likely to shrink.

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Linking Appetite and Parkinson’s

Your stomach may be more powerful than you think. Its appetite hormone, ghrelin, has now been found to protect the dopamine nerves in your brain, a finding that is relevant to any person at risk for Parkinson’s.

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How Digestive Problems Prevent Weight Loss – The Leptin Diet Weight Loss Challenge #2

There are many potential monkey wrenches that wreak havoc with your metabolism and impede your ability to lose weight. New science indicates that damage to your digestive tract heads the list of priorities for debugging stubborn weight issues. This applies to almost everyone who is overweight and not able to lose weight easily by cutting back on excess calories, following the Five Rules of the Leptin Diet, ensuring your basic nutrient needs are met, and exercising more. This is likely true whether you think you have digestive problems or not.

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