In other words, are most cases of obesity caused by GABAergic factors, such as:
insufficient quantities of the neurotransmitter GABA, or
too much reabsorption of GABA, or
GABA receptors not responding to GABA?
I am planning to write a paper on this hypothesis (unless someone disproves it in the comments).
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@jacksonpolack That's a good point. I guess I'm not as much of a warrior for unicausal theories of the obesity epidemic as the Slime Mold Time Mold bloggers are, so I wouldn't go so far as to say that e.g. hyperpalatable food plays no role - but equally, I don't think it plays as big of a role as people seem to think. So I don't really mean either of those things - I mean something closer to "while a bunch of different things may impact GABA, GABA is at the nexus of all the most important causes of obesity" or "At the level of human physiology, GABA is the most important causal factor behind the obesity epidemic".