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.
I do not think the brain is really the appetitive center. I think it's the modulator. But I, for that exact reason, think it wouldn't make sense for evolution to put our appetite center in our brain. It should be in the periphery. It should be in the liver, I think.
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The point is I think it has to be... Your appetite center needs to be regulated to something that senses very rapid change. The outside world, for sure.
By the way, this is my peripheral argument for why, and I'm in the huge minority here, I do not think the brain is really the appetitive center. I think it's the modulator, but I, for that exact reason, think... It wouldn't make sense for evolution to put our appetite center in our brain. It should be in the periphery. It should be in the liver, I think.