Testing paleo diet hypothesis in test tubes: Surprising relationships between diet and hormones that suppress eating
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 19:03
in Health & Medicine
By comparing how gut microbes from human vegetarians and grass-grazing baboons digest different diets, researchers have shown that ancestral human diets, so called 'paleo' diets, did not necessarily result in better appetite suppression. The study reveals surprising relationships between diet and the release of hormones that suppress eating.