Fat Rats Don’t Move…A Demonstration of How Hormone Imbalances Decrease Activity
Cut The Fat Weight Loss Podcast
Ray Hinish And Blythe Wagner
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2010
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
In our weight loss podcast, we mentioned how leptin and other hormones control metabolism, activity and dietary habits. I have attached the video that I talked about in the podcast so that you can see just how amazing the difference in activity is between the rats. This is what we call “spontaneous activity”; scientists have […]
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to see an obese mouse and a normal weight mouse in the same cage. |
| 0:05.0 | And you can see the amount of activity that is expended by the normal mouse, |
| 0:10.0 | relative to obese mouse. |
| 0:11.0 | And this mouse is exploring its environment, looking for food everywhere it can. |
| 0:15.0 | And it is just typical mouse behavior here. |
| 0:20.0 | Like, okay, where is the food? |
| 0:21.0 | You look like you've got it. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm going to check you out. |
| 0:23.0 | Keeps coming back to check out why this guy is doing so well. |
| 0:26.0 | And finally, you're going to see, he moved. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you very much. |
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