{"id":86094,"date":"2018-12-25T08:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/hunger-hormone-ghrelin-aids-overindulgence"},"modified":"2018-12-25T08:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T16:02:58","slug":"hunger-hormone-ghrelin-aids-overindulgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/hunger-hormone-ghrelin-aids-overindulgence","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hunger Hormone\u2019 Ghrelin Aids Overindulgence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hunger-hormone-ghrelin-aids-overindulgence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ghrelin, the hormone that makes you hungry, also makes food, and food smells, irresistibly appealing. Karen Hopkin reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/hunger-hormone-ghrelin-aids-overindulgence\/\" data-accordion-title=\"\" id=\"transcript-accordion\">Full Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Tis the season\u2026for overeating! But it\u2019s not just your lack of willpower or the omnipresent holiday treats. No, you can lay some of the blame on ghrelin. Because a new study shows that ghrelin, the hormone that makes you hungry, also makes food\u2026and food smells\u2026irresistibly <em>appealing<\/em>. The finding appears in the journal <em>Cell Reports<\/em>. [Jung Eun Han et al, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports\/fulltext\/S2211-1247(18)31772-8\">Ghrelin Enhances Food Odor Conditioning in Healthy Humans: An fMRI Study<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/hunger-hormone-ghrelin-aids-overindulgence\/\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/hunger-ho...ndulgence\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghrelin, the hormone that makes you hungry, also makes food, and food smells, irresistibly appealing. Karen Hopkin reports. Full Transcript \u2018Tis the season\u2026for overeating! But it\u2019s not just your lack of willpower or the omnipresent holiday treats. No, you can lay some of the blame on ghrelin. Because a new study shows that ghrelin, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86094","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}