https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DbkScvxdIMcvR9Npe4Y5l?si=c92151f6154b4636

• Hormones don’t work alone. The effect that they have on feeding, hunger and satiety is in cooperation with the nervous system.

Hunger: neural and hormonal control

• There is an area in the front of our brain called hypothalamus. It has neurons doing very different kinds of things: controlling sexual behaviour, body temperature, circadian rhythms, the desire to sleep or be awake, rage, etc.
• One area called ventromedial hypothalamus is involved with hunger and feeding. It has some paradoxical effects. Sometimes disrupting the neurons in this area makes animals want to eat like crazy and in other cases, it makes them not want to eat at all. There are multiple populations of neurons there, some promote feeding and others promote not feeding.