There are plenty of reasons to limit the amount of fat in your diet, and a new study suggests there's another entry to add to the list: high-fat diets could be messing with your brain's ability to regulate your calorie intake.
to limit the amount of fat in your diet, and a new study suggests there's another entry to add to the list: high-fat diets could be messing with your brain's ability to regulate your calorie intake.
"[After] around 10-14 days of eating a high fat/calorie diet, astrocytes seem to fail to react and the brain's ability to regulate calorie intake seems to be lost.The rodents used in the research were split into groups and fed a high fat and calorie diet for 1, 3, 5 or 14 days, or a standard control diet. As well as recording food intake and body weight, the team also used genetic editing techniques to target and monitor specific neural circuits, including the astrocytes.
They found that inhibited astrocytes mimicked what happened to normal mice after a week or two on a high fat diet.
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