Simply Seeing and Smelling Food Preps the Liver for Digestion

After a long day's work, sometimes you can't help but drool over that hot, tempting meal sitting in front of you. Well, it turns out that your liver can't either. A new study published in Cell Reports on November 15 suggests that simply seeing and smelling food preps your body for delicious digestion. The research shows that the specific neurons activated in freshly-fed mice were also activated in mice exposed to just the sight and aroma of food. These inaccessible treats caused their liv