Patent Document ID: 5554623
Application ID: 08249808
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for modifying and regulating at least one of lipid and glucose metabolism in a vertebrate animal or human subject in need of such treatment comprising: administering a prolactin stimulator to said subject on a timed daily basis at a predetermined time of day in a dosage amount sufficient to increase hormonal prolactin level in the blood of said subject; and continuing said administration for a period of time sufficient to modify and reset on a long-term basis the subject's daily prolactin cycle to cause it to mimic the peak of the daily prolactin cycle of a lean healthy member of the same species, thereby achieving in said subject at least one of the following modifications in lipid and glucose metabolism: decrease in insulin resistance, reduction in fat stores, suppression of hyperinsulinemia and reduction of hyperglycemia.