Your Body Has An In-Built Weighing Scale That Can Monitor And Regulate Fat. Here's How It Works

We don’t give our body enough credit for being the incredibly smart fat burning as well as the fat regulatory machine that it is.

Researchers in Sweden have discovered an unidentified fat regulatory system in the body that signals the brain to reduce food intake.

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The mechanism senses excessive body weight much like bathroom scales, signaling the brain to reduce food intake. This will be the first new fat regulatory mechanism to be discovered in over two decades.

More knowledge about the sensing mechanism could lead to a better understanding of the causes of obesity as well as new anti-obesity drugs. Speaking about the study, lead author John-Olov Jansson said, "Quite simply, we have found support for the existence of internal bathroom scales."

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“The weight of the body is registered in the lower extremities. If the body weight tends to increase, a signal is sent to the brain to decrease food intake and keep the body weight constant," says Jansson.

The study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences also revealed that, "The mechanism that we have now identified regulates body fat mass independently of leptin, and it's possible that leptin combined with activation of the internal body scales can become an effective treatment for obesity," explained Professor Claes Ohlsson.

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One proposition that stems from this new research is that the discovery could potentially explain a frequently observed correlation between the time a person spends sitting and increases in metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes.

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