Maintaining hormonal balance is crucial for overall health and well-being in today’s fast-paced world. Hormones regulate various bodily functions, including metabolism, mood, and energy levels. One ...

Maintaining a balanced lifestyle can be challenging in today’s fast-paced world. With stress levels soaring and busy schedules taking precedence, it’s no wonder many individuals feel overwhelmed and ...

Ghrelin and leptin are two hormones that are of great interest in appetite regulation. Leptin is commonly considered anorexigenic (i.e., appetite suppressant), while ghrelin is orexigenic (i.e., ...

Leptin, a hormone critical for normal food intake and metabolism, exerts a strong effect on appetite by acting in the mid-brain region as well as in the hypothalamus, according to a Yale School of ...

To keep the human brain supplied with energy when food was scarce, mammals evolved the ability to switch from burning carbohydrates to burning fat in order to preserve skeletal muscle that would ...

In a new study, Yale researchers offer insight into leptin, a hormone that plays a key role in appetite, overeating, and obesity. Their findings advance knowledge about leptin and weight gain, and ...

Cocaine is habit-forming because of its ability to enhance dopaminergic neurotransmission in the forebrain. In addition to neuronal inputs, forebrain dopamine circuits are modulated by hormonal ...

Leptin is an adipokine produced predominantly by adipose tissue, but also expressed in the articulation by chondrocytes and synoviocytes, and by immune cells As a consequence of its dual role as an ...

A study more closely links obesity to dementia, finding that leptin, a hormone that helps maintain normal body weight, is associated with better signal-transmitting brain white matter in middle-aged ...

Hormone absence or inactivity is common in congenital disease, but hormone antagonism remains controversial. Here, we characterize two novel homozygous leptin variants that yielded antagonistic ...