{"id":870,"date":"2004-04-06T02:38:47","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T02:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:59","slug":"fat-derived-hormone-rewires-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"fat-derived hormone rewires brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Perhaps people should start blaming their brains  instead of their diets for their weight. A hormone, leptin, known to  control appetite, appears also to rewire the brain&#8217;s weight-regulation  centers in early life, researchers from Oregon Health and Science  University report in the April 2 <em>Science.<\/em> Secreted by fat cells in the  body, leptin controls feeding behavior by suppressing appetite. Richard  Simerly and colleagues studied mice that were genetically engineered to  be unable to produce leptin, and therefore became obese. The researchers  found that the animals had disrupted nerve connections in the part of  the brain that controls eating, but that, when injected with leptin as  babies, their brain circuits developed normally. &#8220;The same hormone that  helps regulate food intake later in life also regulates the formation of  weight-control brain mechanisms very early in life,&#8221; Simerly stated in a  press release. He added that leptin&#8217;s role during brain development  could have lasting effects on an individual&#8217;s ability to regulate his or  her body weight. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 4\/06\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps people should start blaming their brains instead of their diets for their weight. A hormone, leptin, known to control appetite, appears also to rewire the brain&#8217;s weight-regulation centers in early life, researchers from Oregon Health and Science University report &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=870\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}