BIOL 1090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vo2 Max, Leptin

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1090
• Professor: Terry Van Raay

Document Summary

Leptin- reduces need for food, through brian messages, tells you to stop eating. Leptin gets muscle and tissue to burn fat. Overweight people have more leptin- type 11 diabetic have much insulin but are resistant to it. Now they have way more leptin in their body, almost 50x higher then the placebo. So for weight loss you need an extreme amount of leptin. So, to increasevo2 max is dependent on heart. 17 mom"s dna determines you limits to maximal oxygen update as you get that limit excerisis then it"s your cardio vascular system in a whole body situation for from your mothers genes.