Less
leptin crosses the blood brain barrier, less binds to its receptors and the brain sends the signal to let you know it's time to eat again.
Not exact matches
It also reduces the amount of
leptin crossing your
blood -
brain barrier by raising triglycerides.
Fructose raises your insulin and your triglycerides, which effectively reduces the amount of
leptin crossing your
blood -
brain barrier.
It is crucial for
leptin to
cross the
blood brain barrier, because when it doesn't, the
brain sends the message that you are hungry and needs to eat.
Researches from St. Louis and Japan (Banks A, Coon AB, Robinson SM, Moinuddin A, Shultz JM, Nakaoke R, Morley JE, et all, Triglycerides induce
leptin resistance at the
blood -
brain barrier) found that
leptin's ability to
cross the
blood brain barrier is interrupted by triglycerides (fats found in the
blood stream).
It also raises your insulin and your triglycerides, which effectively reduces the amount of
leptin crossing your
blood -
brain barrier.
However, we have a problem when there are lots of
leptin stores, but they have trouble
crossing the
blood brain barrier.
If
leptin signalling is weak — ie, if our body fat levels are too low, or if we exercise too often — then the lack of
leptin crossing the
blood -
brain barrier into the hypothalamus signals to the hypothalamus that the body is starving, and certain extraneous bodily functions such as reproduction cease.
Thus, it is possible that the CNS abnormalities observed in ME / CFS patients can be explained, at least in part, by the ability of
leptin and resistin to
cross and / or disrupt the
blood —
brain barrier (46).