Oxyntomodulin and peptide tyrosine-tyrosine (PYY) are released from intestinal enteroendocrine cells in response to a meal. These circulating hormones are considered to be satiety signals, as they ...
It sounds like a weight watcher’s dream come true: a simple hormone, long thought to play an obscure function in the pancreas, turns out instead to be a powerful appetite suppressant–the body’s way of ...
When it was first discovered, scientists dubbed peptide YY3-36 (PYY) the fullness hormone. That’s because PYY–a protein produced by the gut–functions as a powerful appetite suppressant, at least in ...
A plant-based drink and an animal-based meal triggered similar satiety hormone responses and small appetite reductions after breakfast, yet neither changed how much participants ate at lunch, ...
Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2006;2(11):612-620. Katie Wynne is a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow and Specialist Registrar in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Internal Medicine in the ...