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What foods contain leptin?
Fish, pulses, and vegetables contain leptin, but here is moreinformation: First of all, the digestive tract cannot absorb leptin, so even ifyou could find a food rich in lept…in it wouldn't help - forgetabout finding foods rich in leptin. The body has to create it's ownleptin. Second, you don't actually want high leptin levels in your blood -what you want is for your body to respond to leptin moreefficiently (ultimately resulting in LOWER leptin levels!). Leptin acts to curb appetite and to increase metabolism. So itwould seem that you would want to increase leptin levels. But overtime, high leptin levels in your blood eventually results in leptininsensitvity - similar to diabetes. Also, genetics makes somepeople less responsive to leptin than others. The real key is to make your body more sensitive to leptin - sothat you will maintain a high metabolic rate and low appetite evenif leptin levels drop. And as you lose weight, leptin levels drop,because fat itself causes the body to produce more leptin. So your question should be "what foods make the body more sensitiveto leptin?" And the answer is that there are indeed some foods that apparentlyhelp the body become more efficient at processing leptin. How thisworks is not yet known - it is still being studied. But we do knowthat foods that seem to help include: Fish, primarily, then pulses(kidney beans, pinto beans, navy beans, lima beans, lentils), thenother vegetables. Studies have shown that people with high levels of fish in theirdiet have low leptin levels (their bodies respond to leptin moreefficiently, so the body doesn't produce as much leptin). Inpopulations that don't eat lots of fish, leptin levels are usuallyhigher, even when caloric intake, body fat levels, and weight aresimilar to those who eat lots of fish. After fish, high intake ofpulses appears to be effective at decreasing leptin levels (again,increasing leptin sensitivity). After pulses, generally a diet richin vegetables appears to aid in increasing leptin sensitvity. So there's your answer: fish, pulses, and vegetables. Nothing new,really... First of all, the digestive tract cannot absorb leptin, so even ifyou could find a food rich in leptin it wouldn't help - forgetabout finding foods rich in leptin. The body has to create it's ownleptin. Second, you don't actually want high leptin levels in your blood -what you want is for your body to respond to leptin moreefficiently (ultimately resulting in LOWER leptin levels!). Leptin acts to curb appetite and to increase metabolism. So itwould seem that you would want to increase leptin levels. But overtime, high leptin levels in your blood eventually results in leptininsensitvity - similar to diabetes. Also, genetics makes somepeople less responsive to leptin than others. The real key is to make your body more sensitive to leptin - sothat you will maintain a high metabolic rate and low appetite evenif leptin levels drop. And as you lose weight, leptin levels drop,because fat itself causes the body to produce more leptin. So your question should be "what foods make the body more sensitiveto leptin?" And the answer is that there are indeed some foods that apparentlyhelp the body become more efficient at processing leptin. How thisworks is not yet known - it is still being studied. But we do knowthat foods that seem to help include: Fish, primarily, then pulses(kidney beans, pinto beans, navy beans, lima beans, lentils), thenother vegetables. Studies have shown that people with high levels of fish in theirdiet have low leptin levels (their bodies respond to leptin moreefficiently, so the body doesn't produce as much leptin). Inpopulations that don't eat lots of fish, leptin levels are usuallyhigher, even when caloric intake, body fat levels, and weight aresimilar to those who eat lots of fish. After fish, high intake ofpulses appears to be effective at decreasing leptin levels (again,increasing leptin sensitivity). After pulses, generally a diet richin vegetables appears to aid in increasing leptin sensitvity. So there's your answer: fish, pulses, and vegetables. Nothing new,really... (MORE)
