Suggestion of new possibilities in approaching individual variability in appetite through constitutional typology: a pilot study.

Background: Appetite is intricately connected to eating behaviors and shows a high individual variability. In an attempt to approach the problem of gut hormone profiles, appetite, and eating behaviors at the individual level, we have adopted a constitutional typing system widely used in traditional East-Asian medicine, the Sasang constitutional typology, in order to determine the individual variations in appetite, eating behavior, and weight change.

Methods: This pilot study was designed to investigate the variability of appetite among individuals by tracking the gut hormone patterns across different constitutional types.