Satiety
Satiety is the feeling of being full and satisfied after a meal, which keeps you from wanting to eat again for a while. The feeling that makes you stop eating during a meal has a different name: satiation. Gut hormones such as GLP-1 send signals to the brain that help reduce how much you eat.
For experts
Satiety is the process that inhibits further eating, lowers hunger and increases fullness after a meal has finished; the process that ends a meal and so controls meal size is called satiation. GLP-1 inhibits food intake as part of its physiological actions; in mouse brain-slice experiments, GLP-1 directly stimulates hypothalamic POMC/CART neurons and indirectly inhibits neurotransmission in NPY/AgRP neurons. Reduced appetite and food intake with GLP-1 receptor agonism is also reported in human studies.
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