Even though the body starts using leptin better to burn fat during extreme dieting, it also makes more of a protein (PTP1B) that normally blocks leptin—like the body is both stepping on the gas and...
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Severe energy deficit upregulates leptin receptors, leptin signaling, and PTP1B in human skeletal muscle.
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