Master Her Health

  Hacking your hunger hormones can be done naturally without medications and is simpler than you think. I am going to get a little nerdy here, but fiber is magical! When we eat fiber our good gut bacteria feast on it to make short-chain fatty acids (SCFA). These SCFA's decrease inflammation, boost your immunity & reduce risk of chronic diseases. SCFA's stimulate the production of leptin, the hormone made by fat cells to tell your brain to stop eating (this happens over the long-term). There are two other appetite suppressing hormones (PYY & GLP-1), that signal our brain to stop eating on a meal to meal basis. These hormones are activated by SCFA's, and get released into our bloodstream, shoot right up into the appetite center of your brain & turn down our cravings. The flip side to your appetite suppressing hormones is ghrelin, your hunger hormone. Fiber-rich foods suppress ghrelin hormone & calm your cravings. What seems like magic to me, studies have shown