Leptin isn’t found in food, since it’s produced by the human body. However, eating a diet that is rich in fiber and low in ...

Kim has found that the protein produced by the human obesity gene has an effect on fat cells in the body. Researchers had previously thought that the protein, leptin, worked only by promoting changes ...

In "Leptin Receptor Neurons in the dorsomedial hypothalamus require distinct neuronal subsets for thermogenesis and weight loss," researchers laid out the pathways, chemicals, neurons and brain ...

In obesity, while hyperleptinemia highly correlates with excess fat mass, the status of gastric leptin remains unknown. Here, we investigated the expression of leptin in stomach biopsies of obese ...