Fields also explores how dozens of hormones
affect hunger and satiety and interact with the brain and the gut to regulate feeding behavior, while also explaining the addictive nature of foods that interact with the same dopamine and opioid receptors in the brain as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, and nicotine.
A lack of morning appetite could be due to having eaten too much food the night before, especially if you're a late-night snacker, or because of issues related to your metabolism or hormones that
affect hunger. Regardless of the reason, it's important to get your metabolism working in the morning and your blood sugar levels up and ready to fuel your brain and body throughout the day.
Different foods
affect hunger and hormones in unconventional mode.
Obviously, the ability to maintain blood sugar balance in low-calorie or low-carbohydrate dieters will indirectly
affect hunger, but exercise has direct hunger-inducing effect.(2) BCAA supplements have been shown to
affect hunger directly and may provide a buffer to exercise's appetite stimulation.
Sleep loss causes changes in hormone levels that may
affect hunger, the scientists said.
The currently available categories of medication are phentermine and phendimetrazine, which work primarily through norepinephrine pathways and
affect hunger; sibutramine, which is primarily a serotonin reuptake inhibitor and affects satiety; and orlistat, which blocks the absorption of lipids from the gastrointestinal tract.
These data reinforce the idea that food and drink
affect hunger and satiety systems "through entirely different mechanisms.