appetite
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Introduction
The desire to eat food, felt as hunger.
Physiology
- involves
- GI tract
- many hormones including
- central nervous sytem
- autonomic nervous system
* PYY & GLP-1 released by L-cells in the ileum in response to dietary fiber suppressing appetitite[2]
Additional terms
References
- ↑ Wikipedia: Appetite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appetite
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38896603 Clinical Trial. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adm8132