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# How to pronounce "hyperphagic" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/hɪpɛrfædʒɪk/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **hy·per·pha·gic**
- **Parts of Speech**: adjective
- **ADJECTIVE**: Of or pertaining to hyperphagia

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (7 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "hyperphagic" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "So we have this combination of undernourishment before birth, overnourishment afterwards, and you get a rat that's sedentary, that doesn't do physical activity, that's hyperphagic, hyperglycemic, has high blood pressure. This is also what Hales and Barker called the thrifty phenotype-- a restriction before birth followed by a surfeit afterbirth gives us the worst physiology."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDk0KW4Mbd0&t=479s)

### Example 2
> "It was really kind of weird. I was hyperphagic for sugar. I was craving sugar, craving sugar and I was very thirsty as well."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 79:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17O5mgXZ9ZU&t=4749s)

### Example 3
> "Now I also want to be absolutely clear, this does not mean that eating an apple or eating a melon or eating a couple of apricots or something is going to make you hyperphagic, meaning it's going to make you just want to eat, eat, and eat, that's simply not the case. But if you compare fructose and you compare glucose, not only are they metabolized differently in the brain and body, but in addition to that,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 30:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAEzZeaV5zM&t=1853s)

### Example 4
> "there's a blunting of appetite. Appetite is kept clamped and we don't become hyperphagic. We don't overeat. We tend to eat within healthy or normal ranges."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 37:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17O5mgXZ9ZU&t=2261s)

### Example 5
> "If they're homozygous mutants, they become hyperphagic and obese just like they had some brain damage."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 20:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBqn8aqqXw&t=1221s)

### Example 6
> "are being overridden, all the signals from the body, the leptin, the insulin, the glucose, all that stuff has cosmically sky high. And yet they're just what we, the nerds call hyperphagic, they're just eating like crazy. So, what's going on there?"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 111:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XGREPnlI8U&t=6670s)

### Example 7
> "Now that's not exactly what anorexia is, but these AgRP neurons are like an accelerator on wanting to eat. Whereas if you stimulate these AgRP neurons or in humans that have say a small tumor near these AgRP neurons, they become hyperphagic. They will eat to the point of bursting, both animals and humans that have elevated levels of these AgRP neurons are anxious."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 44:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XGREPnlI8U&t=2674s)


## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "hyperphagic" correctly?
"hyperphagic" is pronounced `/hɪpɛrfædʒɪk/`. Syllable breakdown: **hy·per·pha·gic**.

### What does "hyperphagic" mean in context?
Of or pertaining to hyperphagia

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