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appetite
The desire to eat food, felt as hunger.
Physiology:
- involves
a) GI tract
b) many hormones including
1] leptin
2] ghrelin
3] PYY & GLP-1*
4] orexin
5] cholecystokinin
c) central nervous sytem
d) autonomic nervous system
* PYY & GLP-1 released by L-cells in the ileum in response to dietary fiber suppressing appetitite [2]
Related
appetite disorder
eating
References
- Wikipedia: Appetite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appetite
- Dagbasi A, Byrne C, Blunt D et al
Diet shapes the metabolite profile in the intact human ileum, which affects
PYY release.
Sci Transl Med. 2024 Jun 19;16(752):eadm8132.
PMID: 38896603 Clinical Trial.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adm8132