Research

Hormonal

Acute fasting (48 hours) and leptin administration (physiological or pharmacological doses) do not alter serum adiponectin levels in healthy humans.

Short-term fasting (48 hours) or taking leptin supplements will not change your blood levels of adiponectin. Do not expect these interventions to boost adiponectin directly.

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Our interventional studies demonstrate that neither fasting for 48 h, resulting in a low leptin state, nor leptin administration at physiological or pharmacological doses alters serum adiponectin levels.
Alina Gavrila et al. · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2003

Why this rating

Controlled interventional studies with multiple conditions (fasting, placebo, leptin) in healthy subjects.

Source

Serum Adiponectin Levels Are Inversely Associated with Overall and Central Fat Distribution but Are Not Directly Regulated by Acute Fasting or Leptin Administration in Humans: Cross-Sectional and Interventional Studies

Alina Gavrila et al. · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2003

DOI 10.1210/jc.2003-030214

cross_sectional · n=144Cited 440×
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