This reason Smokers No Appetite

You know, besides polluting the lungs with chemicals derived from cigarette smoke, in fact smokers are also made ​​her lack of oxygen. The medical term for lack of oxygen is hypoxia. In the long term, hypoxia can damage organs.

"The air we breathe the fresh air should be. But when we smoke, the air around so unbalanced as more carbon (CO). As a result, oxygen is inhaled a little," said DR. dr. Ari Fahrial Sham, Sp.PD, Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (Faculty of medicine) / RSCM Jakarta.

These conditions according to Ari, many smokers do not realize. Hypoxia can also affect appetite, so weight will be difficult to grow.

"When deprived of oxygen, the body's adaptation by inducing an important molecular factor, the Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1a (HIF-a). This molecule is also affected in the gene hungry, namely leptin. Thus, decreased appetite," he said when met after hearing her dissertation on Faculty of medicine, Friday (07/15/2011).

Apart from smoking, hypoxia can also be experienced people on the plateau, or suffering from chronic disease.

Another study conducted scientists from Yale University, USA, found that nicotine activates certain brain cells so that appetite is reduced.