Individuals can decide to skip a meal, to diet or just try to eat less, but until now the mechanism by which this occurs has eluded scientists. A hormone that causes fat loss. We all know people who eat mountains of food and get little exercise, but never seem to gain weight. Well, it appears that those skinny folks may have a high level of a certain hormone, while less blessed individuals exercise for hours a week and pass up dessert only to remain frankly, pudgy. Mice treated with this hormone had both a decrease in appetite and an increase in metabolic rate.
Fat enzyme makes promising target for weight loss drugs.
An obscure enzyme has been found to play a crucial role in adding fat to the body by breaking down the extracellular matrix around precursor fat cells, a process that allows them to balloon into mature adipocytes. But when plasma from people lacking the enzyme was introduced into mouse cells, fat cell development failed to occur. If you are interested in the subject of obesity from either a professional or patient viewpoint, OMR is indispensable. And subscribing is easy as the click of a mouse. OMR has won numerous honors for excellence, including the Health A to Z and Health Links site awards .