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Starvation causes levels of stress hormones called glucocorticoids to rise in the blood. The surge is driven by neuronal cells that produce a peptide called AgRP. These neurons do not excite glucocorticoid-regulating neurons directly, but instead silence neurons that usually constrain the activity of the body’s stress-response system.
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