The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
and leptin inhibits agrp neurons so as you might expect if you have lots of body fat um then uh a neuron that expresses that controls hunger should be less active than if you have very little body fat so that's one mechanism by which leptin controls hunger
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and the activity of these these agrp neurons uh um is thought to track the body's need for energy one reason that's thought is that um uh they express these receptors for leptin this hormone that I was just talking about that that comes from fat and signals the level of body fat Reserves
so the thought is that the major signal of the level of body fat that we have is leptin