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• Axokine / leptin / obesity / weight control / ghrelin / peripheral hormone peptide YY (PYY 3-36) / PGC-1beta / oleylethanolamide (OEA) / Xenical (orlistat) / Meridia® (sibutramine) / Topamax® (topiramate) / Wellbutrin®/Zyban® (bupropion) / Glucophage (metformin) / Acomplia (rimonabant)

• Growth Hormone secretagogues

Alternative News:

• What makes people fat, why diets don't work, and what triggers appetite? - Dr. Murray's Natural Facts, 3/17/04 - "preliminary evidence indicates that PGX™ has powerful effects on reducing regulatory compounds that stimulate appetite like ghrellin while at the same time increasing the levels of regulatory compounds that block the appetite like PYY, CCK, and adiponectin. Further studies being conducted by Dr. Vuksan will likely show that PGX™ exerts powerful effects on these appetite regulators" - See iHerb or Vitacost PGX products.

Other News:

• Gut Hormone Makes Food Look Even Yummier - Science Daily, 5/6/08
• Hormone That Controls Hunger And Appetite Also Linked To Reduced Fertility - Science Daily, 3/31/08
• Hunger Hormone Fights Aging In The Thymus - Science Daily, 9/6/07
• Ghrelin: A Player In Diabetes But Not Obesity? - Science Daily, 5/10/06
• Ghrelin: More Than a Natural GH Secretagogue - Medscape, 1/25/05
• Black Women May Fall Prey to Hunger Hormone - WebMD, 9/14/04
• Gastric Bypass May Curb Hunger Hormone - WebMD, 7/12/04
• Hormone Wants To Keep Body At Weight Set Point - Science Daily, 7/8/04
• Ghrelin Improves Appetite in Cancer Patients - Medscape, 6/14/04
• The Hunger Hormone - CBS News, 3/12/03
• Ghrelin Levels Fall In Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - Doctor's Guide, 10/10/02
• Impaired Ghrelin Secretion May Aid In Weight Loss - Doctor's Guide, 5/23/02
• Newly Discovered Hormone [ghrelin] Linked To Appetite, Weight Regulation - Intelihealth, 5/23/02
• Why Dieting Makes You Hungrier - WebMD, 5/23/02
• Ghrelin, an Endogenous Growth Hormone Secretagogue, is a Novel Orexigenic Peptide That Antagonizes Leptin Action Through the Activation of Hypothalamic Neuropeptide Y/Y1 Receptor Pathway - Medscape, 2/01

Abstracts:

• Metformin, but not pioglitazone, decreases postchallenge plasma ghrelin levels in type 2 diabetic patients: a possible role in weight stability? - Diabetes Obes Metab. 2008 Mar 18
• Is there a role of ghrelin in preventing catabolism? - J Endocrinol Invest. 2004 Apr;27(4):400-3

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