I hate poachers and I love animals, but this guy I hard not to love and he does make a good villain. Utterly cruel and psychotic, he loves killing and is greedy. In fact, he's so psychotic that he attempts to feed Cody to the crocodiles when he no longer has use for him.
The first is leptin, which is a hormone secreted by your fat cells that acts as an appetite suppressant. Leptin levels peak when you fill up on food. So, when you eat a lot, your appetite goes away. If you ever said, 'I am so full I couldn't eat another bite,' then in that moment, your body was flooded with leptin.
Leptin and ghrelin seem to be the big players in regulating appetite, which consequently influences body weight/fat. When we get hungrier, we tend to eat more. When we eat more, obviously, we maintain our body weight or gain that weight back. Both leptin and ghrelin are peripheral signals with central effects. In other words, theyâre secreted in other parts of the body (peripheral) but affect our brain (central). Leptin is secreted primarily in fat cells, as well as the stomach, heart, placenta, and skeletal muscle. Leptin decreases hunger. Ghrelin is secreted primarily in the lining of the stomach.