What is cholecystokinin?
Cholecystokinin or CCK is a hormone produced by the digestive tract, mostly in the small intestine. It plays a role in digestion of proteins and fats and also affects the brain and vagus nerve, creating feelings of satiety that are designed so that once someone ate sufficiently sufficiently. In addition to being naturally produced by the body, this hormone is sometimes injected for diagnostic tests. In fact, the name "cholecystokinin" means "the movement of the gallbladder", referring to the fact that this hormone causes the gallbladder to withdraw and stimulates it to release the bile into the digestive tract. Cholecystokinin also stimulates the body to produce more bile along with digestive enzymes. The digestive tract produces hormones when fats are detected. The growth to play in the brain to create feelings of anxiety and nausea. Like many hormones, cholecystokinin is very complicated and causes many ways to achieve the desired effect, which is the digestion of certain molecules and suppression of the appetite to prevent overeating.
Like other hormones related to satiety feelings, cholecystokinin can breed in the body for some time. This is one of the reasons why people are encouraged to eat slowly and wait 10-20 minutes if they still feel hungry after a meal. The feeling of hunger is often resolved when the hormones of the body begin to act in the brain. On the contrary, competitive eaters try to eat as quickly as possible to win the competitions from chemicals that cause the saturation that will start to affect their brains, making it difficult or impossible to eat more food.
in diagnostic tests, which are designed to assess whether the gallbladder works properly, the doctor can put cholecystokinin into the patient and monitor his response. This controlled introduction of cholecystokinin into the body allows the doctor to determine whether the gallbladder and the digestive tract work as they should be. If the gallbladder does not match, this may indicate that the patient has a problem and thatFurther diagnostic tests may be needed. Before performing this test, the doctor will interview the patient to make sure it is safe and suitable.