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Circulating glucose levels modulate neural control of desire for high-calorie foods in humans
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Obesity is a worldwide epidemic resulting in part from the ubiquity of high-calorie foods and food images. Whether obese and nonobese individuals regulate their desire to consume high-calorie foods differently is not clear. We set out to investigate the hypothesis that circulating levels of glucose, the primary fuel source for the brain, influence brain regions that regulate the motivation to consume high-calorie foods. Using functional MRI (fMRI) combined with a stepped hyperinsulinemic euglycemic-hypoglycemic clamp and behavioral measures of interest in food, we have shown here that mild hypoglycemia preferentially activates limbic-striatal brain regions in response to food cues to produce a greater desire for high-calorie foods. In contrast, euglycemia preferentially activated the medial prefrontal cortex and resulted in less interest in food stimuli. Indeed, higher circulating glucose levels predicted greater medial prefrontal cortex activation, and this response was absent in obese subjects. These findings demonstrate that circulating glucose modulates neural stimulatory and inhibitory control over food motivation and suggest that this glucose-linked restraining influence is lost in obesity. Strategies that temper postprandial reductions in glucose levels might reduce the risk of overeating, particularly in environments inundated with visual cues of high-calorie foods.
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“Simultaneously, hunger and cravings for high-GL foods (i.e., those that rapidly raise blood glucose) increase, setting the stage for a vicious cycle.”
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“experimentally reducing blood glucose to mild hypoglycemic levels relative to normal euglycemic levels, not only increases plasma cortisol but also increases wanting of HP foods and brain activation of reward-motivational (striatal) and emotion-stress (limbic) regions in response to high fat, high sugar HP versus low fat and non-food pictures”
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“higher cortisol responses in the hypoglycemic state was associated with higher striatal-limbic brain activation during concurrent assessment of these responses”
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“but also increase the hedonic value of food through striatal activation (18).”
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“Indeed, in a study of lean and obese adults, a mean insulininduced decrease in blood glucose concentrations from 4.9 to 3.7 mmol/L increased the food-stimulus activation of the striatum and desire for high-calorie foods (18).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Page, K. A., Seo, D., Belfort-DeAguiar, R., Lacadie, C., Dzuira, J., Naik, S., Amarnath, S., Constable, R. T., Sherwin, R. S., & Sinha, R.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sherwin, Robert S.
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Published
- 2011-10-03
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 4161-4169
- ISSN
- 0021-9738 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3195474
- OpenAlex
- W2141331973
- Cited by
- 212
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 6.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Investigation (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Yale University
- National Institutes of Health (P30 DK, DK 20495)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (PL1DA024859, T32DA022975)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK20495, R01DK020495, R37DK020495, T32DK007058, P30DK045735)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (UL1DE019586)
- National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR024139)
- Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, Yale School of Medicine (UL1RR024139)
- Common Fund (PL1-DA024859, UL1-DE019586)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- circulating glucose, hypoglycemia, food motivation, high-calorie foods, obesity, medial prefrontal cortex, food cues, hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp, overeating, postprandial blood glucose
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Appetite, Appetite Regulation, Blood Glucose, Brain, Energy Intake, Feeding Behavior, Female, Humans, Hunger, Hypoglycemia, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neurosecretory Systems, Obesity, Photic Stimulation, Glucose Clamp Technique, Prefrontal Cortex, Young Adult
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