Ghrelin and Leptin: a story about balance.

Ghrelin is a monster. Literally. It sounds like a monster too, ominously rhyming with gremlin, and also works in notorious ways. Its a hormone that makes you hungry and for me, ghrelin makes me puppy-eyed for bread.

Bread is my cue for hunger. I could have just eaten a meal and if I see bread, I will tell myself that there is plenty room for it. I know its a problem!

Human’s aren’t innately wired to have a balanced relationship with food. But we can become more conscious about it. We better become- because the food we eat is influences a whole lot of things. We either gorge or greed food- thats the work of ghrelin. Or we overthink eating- that’s another monster hormone called leptin.

Both these monsters tip our balance quite a lot. I think the trick is to put them up against each other. If we make sure there on the opposite teams and both of them are neither winning nor losing, theirs a good chance they wont come for us.

I got to find a leptin for my gremlin. Ghrelin I mean.