Weight Loss All in the Mind: Brain Can Tell Body to Burn Fat with Help from Two Hormones

Good fat and bad fat cells. They set the difference between being able to shed excess pounds and keeping them on no matter how hard we diet and exercise.

Researchers from Melbourne's Monash University are now finding that it may all be in the mind: our brains hold the key to producing hormones that can help us lose those extra pounds once and for all.

The researchers discovered that fat is not simply dead weight that we carry around and must struggle to shed. It is a living part of us that we can train our brains to help our body get rid of with the help of two naturally occurring hormones: insulin and leptin.