A hormone produced by the liver could help us say goodbye, or significantly limit our craving for sweets, allowing us to significantly lose weight if we are the ones who give up everything except dessert , often much more caloric than a first course or second course. or if we are among those who give up the diet because after two or three days the binge of biscuits, nutella, croissants or pastries takes place. In short, if we belong to what until now was an unfortunate category at least from a dietary point of view, two studies confirm that things can change for us too. How?

It would be better to say thank you to what. In fact, it seems that there is a particular hormone, FGF21, which is found in the liver of mammals and if produced in large quantities reduces both the craving for sugar and alcohol. Drastically. It would in fact be a metabolic regulator.
But how do we make it? This particular hormone comes into play when we are stressed, when we eat carbohydrates, when we eat too much sugar (do you know that nausea, that feeling of sickness that rises after eating too many sweets? It would be the hormone that creates it) and it would be associated with a drop dopamine, the pleasure hormone.

The discovery is interesting because it could soon be exploited to develop a drug that reduces the craving for sweets using this hormone.
But what do we already know about the FGF21, to be able to use it to our advantage, without waiting?
Well, I went to go through the study that talks about it for good, and I discovered that:
– this hormone is produced more in those who are on a ketogenic diet (eating fat instead of carbohydrates)
– or in a diet high in carbohydrates and low fat content, such as “high starches” diets, for example the carbs lovers diet.