Research

Hormonal

Acute massive overfeeding (120 Cal/kg over 12 hours) causes a moderate (~40%) rise in serum leptin that persists into the next morning, independent of insulin levels.

Eating a large amount of food in one day (120 Cal/kg) causes your leptin levels to rise by about 40% and stay elevated overnight. This happens even if your insulin levels don't change in the same way, suggesting leptin responds directly to the energy intake.

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An acute, approximately 40% rise in serum leptin occurred between the fifth and tenth hours of the experiment and persisted until the morning of the following day (P < 0.01)... No correlation between insulin and leptin responses was found.
Jerzy W. Kolaczynski et al. · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 1996

Why this rating

Controlled clinical trial, clear statistical significance, small sample size.

Source

Response of leptin to short-term and prolonged overfeeding in humans.

Jerzy W. Kolaczynski et al. · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 1996

DOI 10.1210/jcem.81.11.8923877

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