Posted 04 Dec 2013

Prof. Stephen Bloom

Bowels control the brain



About speaker:

Prof. Sir Steve Bloom, FRS heads a 40 strong research team investigating the physiology of regulatory peptides in CNS and periphery.
Stephen Bloom discusses the 'desperateness to eat' -- which is essentially driven by the brain and controlled by the gut. The two work in concert and ought to be considered a single entity. Stephen discusses how the absence of leptin affects the body.