appetite
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The team wanted to determine whether these variants also disrupt GLP-1, a hormone produced in the gut that helps control blood sugar after meals by stimulating insulin release, slowing stomach emptying, and reducing appetite.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
She said: "Record shops of the world will know first-hand that above all, Robert Plant is a connoisseur of his craft whose appetite for musical discoveries has not waned with the passage of time."
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
The Citadel note stated that appetite for options has also skewed bearish, as retail traders buy record levels of put contracts.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
Weight-loss drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro and Zepbound work by mimicking gut hormones including GLP-1, suppressing appetite and making people feel full sooner when eating.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
She was so hungry, and this was so good that now she wondered, for the first time since her heart stopped beating, whether she had misunderstood her appetite.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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