They made a mouse anorexic!

So I'm sifting through research articles on pubmed and I just found out that scientists have found a way to 'make a mouse anorexic' basically they saw that when they highly restrict the food available to the mouse, it begins being hyperactive and exercises excessively on its wheel, night or day, and starts to opt for exercising over taking food even when offered to them. Then they did brain scans on these mice and found that their brain activity was very similar to human anorexic patients.

I thought this was really cool because mice are scavengers that will eat whatever they can find, so for their abnormal brain activity to be so strong that it makes them not take food offered (when they have restricted access and are starving) is insane to me. Its like oh shit this actually is a physical disease and I'm not just making it up in my head, who'd a thought

side note: I'm really curious how many people here are interested in the 'science' of their disorder, I'm thinking if anyone else gives a shit I might start a forum just to post the conclusion from research stuff I read to get some legit info on a lot of things we're always contemplating (weight loss plateau, CICO vs other, HIIT vs low intensity long duration, metabolism of anorexics, body's reaction to starvation, all that kinda stuff

• your geeky premed anorexic