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The brain-belly connection: Scientists find key genetic triggers in weight-regulating brain cells

April 2, 2015 by

The little voice inside your head that tells you to eat, or stop eating, isn’t a little voice – it’s actually a cluster of about 10,000 specialized brain cells. And now, scientists have found tiny triggers inside those cells that give rise to this “voice”, and keep it speaking throughout life.

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