AGA Food Intake Regulation and Obesity

Society: AGA

Food intake and energy expenditure are key regulators of body weight. To regulate food intake, the brain must integrate physiological signals and hedonic cues. The brain plays an essential role in modulating the appropriate responses to the continuous update of the body energy-status by the peripheral signals and the neuronal pathways that generate the gut-brain axis. This regulation encompasses various steps involved in food consumption, include satiation, satiety, and hunger. It is important to have a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms that regulate food consumption. In this session, we will invite world-renown speakers to cover 4 key areas of food intake regulation: 1) Brain, 2) gastric function, 3) intestinal function, and 4) Microbiota. Additionally, we will have 2 abstracts.This session could be a basic, clinical translational in OMN with state of the art lectures, abstracts and time reserved for Q&A. Invited speakers are basic scientists outside of AGA. Thus, we proposed to have a virtual component for their presentations.