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NATURE METABOLISM
Volume 5, Issue 6, Pages 1059-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s42255-023-00816-9
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This study found that intragastric glucose and lipid infusions can induce cerebral neuronal activity and striatal dopamine release in individuals with a healthy body weight, but these responses are severely impaired in individuals with obesity. Furthermore, the impaired neuronal responses are not restored after diet-induced weight loss.
Post-ingestive nutrient signals to the brain regulate eating behaviour in rodents, and impaired responses to these signals have been associated with pathological feeding behaviour and obesity. To study this in humans, we performed a single-blinded, randomized, controlled, crossover study in 30 humans with a healthy body weight (females N = 12, males N = 18) and 30 humans with obesity (females N = 18, males N = 12). We assessed the effect of intragastric glucose, lipid and water (noncaloric isovolumetric control) infusions on the primary endpoints cerebral neuronal activity and striatal dopamine release, as well as on the secondary endpoints plasma hormones and glucose, hunger scores and caloric intake. To study whether impaired responses in participants with obesity would be partially reversible with diet-induced weight loss, imaging was repeated after 10% diet-induced weight loss. We show that intragastric glucose and lipid infusions induce orosensory-independent and preference-independent, nutrient-specific cerebral neuronal activity and striatal dopamine release in lean participants. In contrast, participants with obesity have severely impaired brain responses to post-ingestive nutrients. Importantly, the impaired neuronal responses are not restored after diet-induced weight loss. Impaired neuronal responses to nutritional signals may contribute to overeating and obesity, and ongoing resistance to post-ingestive nutrient signals after significant weight loss may in part explain the high rate of weight regain after successful weight loss. Brain responses to food are severely diminished in individuals with obesity, and are not improved by 10% body weight loss. These findings point to an important role for the brain in weight regain after weight loss.
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