Question

Noor has gained twenty pounds over her optimal weight. We would expect her levels of leptin and insulin to _____ in order to _____ her feelings of hunger.

Answer 1

The correct answer is - decrease and increase respectively in order to increase her feeling of hunger.

Step-by-step explanation:

Insulin is the hormone that is made by the pancreas that permits the cells to absorb sugar or glucose to acts as energy. If insulin level is increase in the blood it will lead to increase the feeling of the hunger even however physiological you not need more food.

Leptin in other hand has the role as hunger hormone which include the lowering the feeling of the hunger if present in high level.

Thus, the correct answer is - decrease and increase respectively in order to increase her feeling of hunger.