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se their stomachs are so reduced. What’s more their appetite is drastically diminished too. This seems to indicate that appetite control is located in the stomach.
But here’s the thing: this reduction in appetite doesn’t last long.
This is the key message: Your brain controls your appetite but addiction can control your brain.
After about a year many bariatric patients start to regain the large appetites they had before the surgery even though their stomachs are still just as small and get full very quickly. This can lead to devastating consequences: with their returning appetite some patients eat until their reduced stomachs become engorged – or even burst. This disturbing phenomenon has led scientists to conclude that hunger is in fact all in the mind. As one relapsed patient remarked “the problem is that they only operated on my stomach not my brain. ”
This revelation firmly supports the idea that food can be addictive; given addiction is something that happens in the brain.
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