# Both obese and anorexic women have low levels of 'feel good' neurosteroid

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> **[Both obese and anorexic women have low levels of 'feel good' neurosteroid](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171110164029.htm)**
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> Women at opposite extremes of the weight spectrum have low levels of the neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone, according to new research.

  
Women at opposite extremes of the weight spectrum have low levels of the neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone, according to new research.