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Am J Clin Nutr ; 34 : — Fructose prevents leptin and insulin from elevating to normal levels and increases ghrelin and triglycerides. Keep fructose below 25 grams per day and avoid consumption of high fructose corn syrup. Antibiotics in our food supply, or taken regularly for frequent illness, increase ghrelin levels so look for antibiotic-free animal proteins and use antibiotics only when necessary.
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CART neurons target areas throughout the hypothalamus and are associated with reinforcement and reward [ 48 ], sensory processing, and stress and endocrine regulation [ 47 , 49 ]. Along those same lines, blocking CART with an antiserum increases feeding in normal rats [ 50 ]. Intracerebroventricular administration of CART in rats inhibits normal and starvation-induced feeding, as well as blocking the NPY feeding response [ 47 , 50 ].
At this point, we are not aware of any clinical trials utilizing CART agonists or antagonists for weight regulation perhaps due to the significant nonappetite effects associated with CART. In contrast to ghrelin, the single peripheral peptide known to stimulate hunger, there are many peripheral peptides that are associated with satiety.
Various organs secrete these hormones, including the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, and adipose tissue. The list of satiety hormones is far too extensive to discuss in this review. We will, therefore, focus on the key players starting with cholecystokinin CCK , the first discovered satiety hormone. Cholecystokinin CCK was initially discovered in and was one of the first peptides to be found in the gut [ 51 ]. In addition to inhibiting food intake, CCK stimulates pancreatic secretion, gall bladder contraction, intestinal motility, and inhibition of gastric mobility.
Administration of CCK to rats inhibits food intake by reducing meal size and duration [ 52 ], which is enhanced by gastric distention [ 53 ]. The half-life of CCK is only minutes, therefore it is not effective at reducing meal size if administered more than 15 minutes before a meal [ 52 ]. CCK is synthesized throughout the gastrointestinal tract, but mainly in the duodenum and jejunum. Multiple bioactive forms are derived from the same gene product by posttranslational or extracellular processing.
CCK is rapidly released locally and into the circulation in response to nutrients in the gut, especially fat and protein, with a gradual increase in levels over 10—30 minutes after meal initiation, remaining elevated for up to 5 hours [ 54 ]. CCK-sensitive brain sites include the lateral hypothalamus, medial pons, and lateral medulla. These areas are involved in reward behavior, memory and anxiety, as well as satiety [ 55 , 56 ]. CCK-A is found on the afferent vagal neurons that have a direct effect on food intake.
PYY is produced by the intestinal L cells of the ileum, colon, and rectum. Following food intake, PYY is released into the circulation and peaks hours postprandially [ 59 ]. PYY concentrations are proportional to meal energy content and are therefore higher after fat intake compared to carbohydrates and proteins [ 60 ].
Administration of PYY delays gastric emptying, inhibits secretions from the pancreas and stomach, inhibits gallbladder contraction, and increases the absorption of fluid and electrolytes from the ileum [ 62 ].
In rodents, the administration of PYY decreases food intake and reduces weight gain [ 63 ], as well as, improvesglycemic control in rodent models of diabetes [ 64 ].
PYY-deficient mice are resistant to satiety and develop marked obesity, which is reversed by exogenous PYY administration [ 65 ].
In contrast, intracerebroventricular administration of full length PYY stimulates food intake. This is thought to be via action on Y1 and Y5 receptors in the paraventricular nucleus, the neurons targeted by the orexigenic arcuate nucleus NPY neurons.
In obese and lean humans, administration of PYY decreases food intake with a significant decrease in the cumulative 24 hour caloric intake [ 66 ]. Obese subjects, however, have a lower endogenous PYY response at each meal compared to normal weight volunteers [ 67 ]. This relative PYY deficiency may reduce satiety and could thus reinforce obesity. Obese patients treated by jejunoileal bypass surgery [ 68 ] or vertical-banded gastroplasty [ 69 ] have elevated PYY levels, which may contribute to their appetite loss.
Pancreatic polypeptide PP , another member of the PP-fold peptide family, is produced largely in the endocrine pancreas, and also in the exocrine pancreas, colon, and rectum. PP is also released in response to a meal, in proportion to caloric load, and inhibits appetite [ 70 ]. PP release is stimulated by ghrelin, as well as motilin a peptide secreted by the small intestine that enhances gastrointestinal motility and secretin a peptide secreted by the duodenum that stimulates gastric acid secretion , whereas somatostatin a hormone that decreases the rate of gastric emptying, and reduces smooth muscle contraction and blood flow within the intestine and its analogs significantly reduce PP secretion.
PP binds with greatest affinity to the Y4 and Y5 receptors [ 71 ]. Peripheral administration of PP in normal mice reduces food intake, gastric emptying, and gastric expression of ghrelin, while it increases vagal tone [ 72 ].
Interestingly, patients with Prader-Willi syndrome have suppressed basal and postprandial PP levels [ 74 ]. Administration of PP in Prader-Willi patients leads to reduced food intake [ 75 ]. Incretins are hormones released from the gastrointestinal tract into the circulation in response to nutrient ingestion. Incretins enhance glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. It is cleaved into multiple different products, including glucagon and two of the incretins, oxyntomodulin and glucagon-like peptide-1 GLP Oxyntomodulin and GLP-1 are released from L cells in the distal ileum and colon in response to ingestion of nutrients.
Oxyntomodulin binds the GLP-1 receptor that is expressed in the nucleus of the solitary tract in the brainstem and in the arcuate nucleus. Oxyntomodulin inhibits gastric acid secretion, decreases gastric emptying, and decreases pancreatic enzyme secretion which is likely related to decreased gastric output [ 76 ].
Administration of oxyntomodulin in humans has been found to suppress ghrelin levels [ 77 ], decrease body weight and appetite, decrease leptin, and increase adiponectin levels presumably secondary to loss of adipose tissue [ 78 ].
GLP-1 leads to delay in gastric emptying, stimulation of glucose-dependent insulin secretion, inhibition of glucagon secretion, and stimulation of somatostatin secretion. GLP-1 binds to its receptor, a G-protein coupled receptor that belongs to the class B family, including receptors for glucagon and GIP [ 79 ]. The GLP-1 receptor is expressed in a wide range of tissues, including the pancreatic islet cells, lung, heart, kidney, stomach, intestine, pituitary, skin, vagus nerve, and several regions of the CNS including the hypothalamus and brainstem.
Peripheral and central GLP-1 administration activates neurons in the arcuate and paraventricular nuclei, nucleus of the solitary tract, and area postrema [ 80 ] leading to decreased appetite. GLP-1 administration promotes satiety and has beneficial effects on glucose homeostasis. The properties of GLP-1 have made it a useful drug target. GLP-1 is released rapidly into the circulation after oral nutrient ingestion, and its secretion occurs in a biphasic pattern starting with an early within 10—15 minutes phase that is followed by a longer 30—60 minutes phase [ 81 ].
Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide GIP is another incretin that is secreted by the stomach and K cells in the duodenum and jejunum in response to nutrient ingestion. The half-life of GIP is 7 minutes in healthy individuals and 5 minutes in patients with type 2 diabetes [ 82 ]. The GIP receptor gene is expressed in the pancreas, stomach, small intestine, adipose tissue, adrenal cortex, pituitary, heart, testis, endothelial cells, bone, trachea, spleen, thymus, lung, kidney, thyroid, and several regions in the CNS.
GIP action in the CNS may play a role in neural progenitor cell proliferation and behavior modification [ 84 ]. Insulin is another hormonal regulator of appetite. Insulin levels increase rapidly after a meal and vary directly with changes in adiposity. Insulin penetrates the blood-brain barrier via a saturatable, receptor-mediated process at levels proportional to the circulating insulin [ 85 ].
Insulin receptors are widely distributed in the brain with highest concentrations found in the olfactory bulbs and arcuate nucleus. Once insulin enters the brain, it acts as an anorexigenic signal [ 86 ].
Mice with a neuron-specific disruption of the insulin receptor gene have increased food intake, obesity with increased body fat, and plasma leptin levels, and impaired spermatogenesis and ovarian follicle maturation [ 87 ].
There are several insulin receptor substrates IRS that are activated by phosphorylation by the insulin receptor on their tyrosine residues [ 88 ].
IRS-2 knockout mice have been found to have increased food intake, increased fat stores, and infertility [ 89 ]. Leptin, also termed OB protein, is another important appetite regulator. It is produced by the white and brown adipose tissue, stomach, placenta, mammary gland, ovarian follicles, and certain fetal organs such as heart, bone or cartilage, and perhaps the brain. The ob gene is expressed in all adipose tissue, but to a greater degree in the subcutaneous adipose tissue than the omental fat.
Leptin levels are positively correlated with the amount of body fat mass. Leptin secretion does not appear to be driven by meal patterns. Instead, the circadian pattern is characterized by high levels between midnight and early morning hours and a nadir around noon to midafternoon [ 90 ]. Leptin is secreted in a pulsatile fashion with 32 peaks per hour period and a pulse duration of This implies that neural and neurohormonal components in the brain may regulate leptin secretion from adipocytes.
Leptin receptors belong to the cytokine receptor superfamily, which uses the Janus activating kinase JAK- signal transducer and activator of transcription STAT pathway of signal transduction. Leptin receptors have multiple different splice variants.
Ob-Rb is the long form of the receptor and has a long intracellular domain, which is necessary for the action of leptin on appetite. Ob-Rb is expressed in multiple different sites within the hypothalamus including the arcuate nucleus, paraventricular nucleus, dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus, and lateral hypothalamic area. Short forms of the Ob receptor may play a role in the transport of leptin across the blood-brain barrier [ 92 ]. Ultimately, this leads to decreased appetite and increased energy expenditure.
Ob-deficient mice have an absence of circulating leptin and develop severe obesity due to both increased food intake and decreased energy expenditure [ 98 ], both of which can be normalized by the administration of leptin [ 99 ]. The absence of leptin in humans leads to severe obesity, hypogonadism, and impaired T cell mediated immunity, which are remediable with administration of recombinant leptin [ ].
Finally, the hormone adiponectin is secreted by the mature adipocyte. Adiponectin receptors are expressed in the brain, particularly in the paraventricular nucleus, amygdala, area postrema, and diffusely in the periventricular areas. For reasons that are unclear, adiponectin's concentration in the blood stream is extremely high, approximately times higher than that of other polypeptide hormones. Generally, adiponectin self associates to form homotrimers that then dimerize to yield hexamers.
Increased adiponectin levels in rodents appear to decrease body fat mass by stimulation of fatty acid oxidation in muscle [ ]. Adiponectin also decreases food intake and obesity in obese rats [ ], and improves insulin sensitivity by decreasing hepatic glucose output [ ].
In humans, high molecular weight adiponectin which is thought to be the active form is reduced in patients with type 2 diabetes, and increasing the proportion of high molecular weight adiponectin by weight loss and treatment with thiazolinediones leads to improved insulin sensitivity [ ].
Although the obesity epidemic has worsened significantly in children presumably owing to alterations in dietary intake and energy expenditure, there have been clearly demonstrable genetic mutations in hormones and their receptors that may be implicated in childhood obesity.
It would therefore be important to identify children with early onset obesity that is resistant to dietary modification and physical activity to evaluate them for possible genetic mutations. This could lead to more appropriate therapies targeted at the underlying disease process. It has also become clear that certain acquired pathological states associated with childhood obesity may respond well to specific-targeted therapy based on the underlying pathology.
For example, the intense hyperphagia and weight gain frequently observed after damage of the basal hypothalamus e. In this case, treatment with a melanocortin agonist may be particularly beneficial.
In contrast, patients with Prader-Willi syndrome may be more likely to benefit from therapies that restore normal physiological levels of peripheral appetite regulating hormones, such as ghrelin antagonists. Similarly, one might also consider hormonal agonists or antagonists as treatments of cachexia. Several preclinical and clinical trials indicate that GHS-1 R agonists including ghrelin itself are effective agents for this particular metabolic derangement.
Other models suggest that melanocortin-4 receptor antagonists will also provide effective therapy for cachexia and involuntary weight loss. Collectively, our understanding of the complex nature of weight regulation has opened the door to a more thoughtful approach to therapeutic intervention in disorders of weight regulation. The redundancy of these systems highlights the likelihood that no one single agent will be effective in every situation, making individualized combinations of therapy a more rational solution to weight regulation therapy.
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