Author: Lewis Mattin, Senior Lecturer, Life Sciences, University of Westminster

What weight loss jabs teach us about how appetite works

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New Africa/Shutterstock Hunger is often discussed as a matter of willpower. In appetite research, it looks very different. Physiologists who study eating behaviour and metabolism see hunger as a fluctuating biological signal shaped by hormones, digestion, activity and environment. The recent surge of interest in GLP-1 drugs has brought one part of this system into […]

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Gut microbes may have links with sleep deprivation

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Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Sleep is one of the essential physiological needs for human survival, alongside food, water and air. But sleep is socially driven, influenced by environmental and personal factors, and a recent study suggests it may be affected by fragments from bacteria. Historically scientists have thought it unlikely that gut microbes affect physiological sleep regulation. The […]

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