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Regulation of Energy Balance

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This article contains a brief review of the problem posed by a fundamental physiological regulatory mechanism, and a new hypothesis.

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HERVEY, G. Regulation of Energy Balance. Nature 222, 629–631 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222629a0

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