marijuana is very popular and very controversial it can have a ton of effects on your body from making you feel relaxed and euphoric to giving you dry mouth and red eyes one of its more interesting effects is making you feel really hungry but what exactly does we do to your brain and body that makes you just want to keep eating the active ingredient in marijuana is Tetra Hydro cannabol more commonly known as THC once in your blood it takes just seconds for the chemical to reach your brain our brains process information when neurons pass signals to one another through chemicals called neurotransmitters THC resembles a natural neurotransmitter called anandamide and both of these chemicals are in the same class of compounds referred to as cannaboids a Yale study conducted on Mice found that cannaboids seem to interfere with the behavior of a special group of cells called PC neurons they’re found in the hypothalamus the part of the brain that helps Reg ulate many of the body’s key processes like heart rate and temperature these neurons usually send out a chemical signal to tell your brain that you’re full in the mice the THD turned off adjacent cells that are supposed to tell PC neurons to slow down so activity of these neurons actually increased so if an appetite suppressing neuron is sending out more signals than normal you’d think your appetite would be suppressed right well not quite the THD also activated a receptor inside the PC neurons causing the cell to start producing endorphins which actually increase appetite so the mice ended up eating more not less so basically cannaboids just completely confuse this function of your hypothalamus they ramp up activity of PC neurons while completely flipping their functionality and while not every scientist agrees with this explanation most people would agree that smoking pot definitely makes you hungry
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