"Gut peptides" refers to small molecules that are produced in our digestive system (specifically in the gut) and play a role in controlling our appetite and digestion. These peptides help regulate functions like hunger, fullness, and the release of certain hormones in our body that impact our eating habits.
Full definition
Coffee may also alter levels
of gut peptides, the hormones naturally released to control things like hunger or fullness.
Martins, Catia, et al. «Effects of exercise
on gut peptides, energy intake and appetite.»
Ghrelin hormone is a brain -
gut peptide bodily hormone with two primary physical actions: growth hormone secretagogue action and food consumption inducer (causing hunger, in other words).
Changes in hunger and fullness in relation to
gut peptides before and after 8 weeks of alternate day fasting.
«Oral ingestion of a hydrolyzed gelatin meal in subjects with normal weight and in obese patients: Postprandial effect on
circulating gut peptides, glucose and insulin.»
It is now accepted that the immediate postprandial state is characterized by hormonal changes that include a decrease in the concentrations of the
orexigenic gut peptide ghrelin, at the same time as an increase in the anorexigenic peptides such as peptide YY (PYY) and glucagon - like peptide (GLP)-1 (3).
Coffee alters levels
of gut peptides, the hormones naturally released to control hunger or fullness.
Eating rate during a fixed - portion meal does not affect postprandial appetite and
gut peptides or energy intake during a subsequent meal.