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The part of our brain that controls our body weight (hypothalamus) notices any weight loss as starvation and unconsciously works via hormonal signaling to increase hunger and food cravings and decrease calorie burn to get your weight (specifically fat) back to where it was prior to weight loss
Yuan M, Li D, Zhang Z, Sun H, An M, Wang G (2018) Endometriosis induces gut microbiota alterations in mice
Heres a chart, based on data from this study: People with obesity or metabolic syndrome have chronically high GLP-1 levels, possibly because the diet that tends to cause obesity and metabolic syndrome is high in sugar and simple carbs, which raise blood sugar and demand a lot of GLP-1
Providers need secondary interventions that address this metabolic slowdown rather than simply forcing further appetite suppression