Example sentences for: setpoint

How can you use “setpoint” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Also, when obese dieters lost weight, their metabolism slowed, conserving calories and driving their weight back to the setpoint.

  • Experts believe that once you've put on extra weight for six months to a year, the setpoint resets, as it does after pregnancy.

  • The big breakthrough in understanding obesity came in 1994, when experiments on lab mice revealed that the hormone leptin controls the setpoint by controlling satiety.

  • To permanently lower the setpoint, you must keep weight off for about three years, perhaps longer.

  • When your weight falls, leptin decreases, hunger increases, and you eat more--until you return to your weight setpoint.


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