Intense exercise has been shown to make people forget about hunger. In particular, it has a significant effect on reducing women's appetite. This adds one more reason for people trying to lose weight to engage in exercise.

According to the American medical journal 'Medical News Today,' researchers at the University of Virginia found that intense exercise suppresses ghrelin more than moderate exercise, and this effect may be more pronounced in women.

 

Ghrelin is a hormone related to appetite. People with high ghrelin levels generally have more difficulty losing weight. According to past studies, an increase in ghrelin levels during dieting is the body's way of protecting itself from starvation. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and other eating disorders are associated with high levels of ghrelin.

 

The researchers had 8 healthy men with an average age of 43 and 6 healthy women with an average age of 32 perform exercise. They measured the participants' ghrelin levels before exercise, after moderate-intensity exercise, and after high-intensity exercise. The participants reported their appetite after each exercise session.

Virginia Medical School's lead researcher, Kara Anderson, stated, "Ghrelin is a hormone released from the stomach that interacts with the hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates hunger," and "she discovered that female participants had lower total ghrelin levels and DAG form of ghrelin levels compared to male participants." Ghrelin has two types: acylated (AG) and deacylated (DAG). DAG accounts for approximately 80% of ghrelin in the body.

 

Both men and women showed a decrease in DAG ghrelin levels after intense exercise. He stated, "High-intensity exercise can suppress hunger more than low-intensity exercise," and "In women, the AG type also significantly decreased after high-intensity exercise."

 

Mir Ali, the head of the weight loss center at Orange Coast Medical Center in California, said, "We all know the beneficial effects of exercise," but added, "It's difficult to draw definitive conclusions because the number of experimental participants is small." He also mentioned, "Proteins and vegetables tend to suppress appetite for a longer period," and emphasized, "We should reduce the intake of easily digestible simple carbohydrates and sugars."

 

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Intense exercise was found to make people forget their hunger.

Wow~~~ Just thinking about it, intense exercise somehow seems like it would be really exhausting.

They say it helps forget hunger, so it must be helpful for dieting.