{"id":215727,"date":"2025-06-11T02:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T07:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/tracing-brain-circuits-that-tell-us-when-to-eat-and-when-to-stop"},"modified":"2025-06-11T02:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T07:09:05","slug":"tracing-brain-circuits-that-tell-us-when-to-eat-and-when-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/tracing-brain-circuits-that-tell-us-when-to-eat-and-when-to-stop","title":{"rendered":"Tracing brain circuits that tell us when to eat\u2014and when to stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tracing-brain-circuits-that-tell-us-when-to-eat-and-when-to-stop.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists know the stomach talks to the brain, but two new studies from Rutgers Health researchers suggest the conversation is really a tug-of-war, with one side urging another bite, the other signaling \u201cenough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Together, the papers in <i>Nature Metabolism<\/i> and <i>Nature Communications<\/i> trace the first complementary wiring diagram of hunger and satiety in ways that could refine today\u2019s blockbuster weight-loss drugs and blunt their side effects.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42255-025-01305-x\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, led by Zhiping Pang of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School\u2019s Center for NeuroMetabolism, pinpointed a slender bundle of neurons that runs from the hypothalamus to the brainstem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists know the stomach talks to the brain, but two new studies from Rutgers Health researchers suggest the conversation is really a tug-of-war, with one side urging another bite, the other signaling \u201cenough.\u201d Together, the papers in Nature Metabolism and Nature Communications trace the first complementary wiring diagram of hunger and satiety in ways that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}