04/02/2026
DID YOU KNOW - 'Hunger hormone' imbalance can trigger obesity⁉️
There are two hunger hormones that can stand in the way of weight loss: insulin and leptin.
All healthy people secrete insulin after they’ve consumed a carbohydrate rich meal. Insulin’s job is to get the glucose from the meal you’ve just eaten into your cells, where it should be burnt to give you energy. As with leptin, the insulin in your body can stop being effective. Your pancreas tries to compensate for this by pumping out more and more insulin. This causes more harm than good; high insulin levels promote your body to store fat (particularly around the torso), they inhibit the fat burning hormones, and they raise your appetite (especially for carbs and sugar).
Leptin is a hormone that your fat cells make. It travels to your brain and tells it you’ve had enough to eat, there is enough fat on your body and you don’t need to eat anymore. If your leptin is working well, you find it easy to maintain your weight. You eat enough to satisfy your appetite and you’re not interested in over-eating. Unfortunately, leptin resistance is extremely common. If your fat cells have been pumping out high levels of leptin for some time, your brain stops responding to it. That can give you feelings of intense hunger and cravings that are never satisfied.
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QUIZ: Could Imbalanced Hunger Hormones Be Causing Your Excess Weight? If this quiz has raised health concerns for you, we recommend that you see your own doctor for a checkup and/or appropriate tests. If you have any specific and/or personal questions regarding this quiz answer, please email our pro...
