Scientists have solved a new mystery about how the brain regulates eating

"food" often can not control their mouths, the brain is the control of eating activities of the "command." New research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other scientific institutions has found for the first time that neurons in a mysterious brain region of the lower pasum play an important role in eating regulation, proposing a new brain-regulated feeding mechanism, the results of which were recently published in the world's authoritative journal
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the main reason for obesity is the energy imbalance between calories consumed and calories burned. So how does the body tell us to eat or not to eat and how much to eat? Xu Fuqiang's team of researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fu Yu of the Singapore Science and Technology Research Bureau have for the first time found that a positive (SST-plus) neuron in the outer nouric nucleus of the hem brain also plays an important role in eating regulation.
researchers used mice as a model to find that hunger and hunger hormones activate the newly discovered neurons, suggesting that they are closely related to hunger. In order to understand the role of these neurons in regulating eating, they activated and inhibited or inactivated SST-neurons, respectively. It was found that activating SST-neurons promoted increased eating in mice, while inhibition reduced eating in mice.
" was that mice with SST-neuron inactivation lost about 56 percent of their body weight in 10 weeks. 'This study proves that more than one bit of the brain is activated at the same time when we are hungry, ensuring that we eat when we are hungry,' said Li Qin, an associate researcher at the Wuhan Institute of The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the paper's co-lead author. And structures like this in the brain may also make us prone to unstoppable eating behavior when faced with hearty foods.
industry believes the study will provide new targets for drug development to treat obesity or anorexia, as well as new ideas for understanding metabolic or appetite changes in patients with neurodegenerative diseases. (Source: Xinhua News Agency, Li Wei)