Information
About Diet Pills Research:
Hormones, Genes and Enzymes
Diet Pills and Obesity Research
Obesity research has shown when it comes
to appetite, certain hormones, enzymes and genes all play a role in signaling
the brain when it's time to eat. Understanding how these mechanisms interact
with a view to creating a new generation of diet pills, is a key pursuit
in the United States, where two-thirds of the population is overweight
and nearly 59 million are obese.
Hormones for Diet Pills?
Recently, however, scientists have directed
their attention to a small group of hormones and enzymes that, they believe,
could play a role in developing a diet wonder pill.
Among the hottest targets are the hormones
known as ghrelin and PYY. Japanese scientists discovered ghrelin in 1999
and American researchers proved its role in appetite a year later.
According to work by David Cummings, an
endocrinologist at Seattle's Veterans Administration Medical Center at
the University of Washington, ghrelin is produced in the stomach and,
when delivered to the brain, tells the body to eat - immediately.
What's more, Cummings research showed that
obese people who are dieting and losing weight have increased levels of
the hungry hormone in their blood. The more pounds they lose, the more
their bodies demand they eat more to make up the difference.
By finding a way to artificially reduce
the level of ghrelin in the blood, scientists hope to produce new anti-obesity
diet pills that will turn off the body's demand to eat.
Source: Seattle VA Medical Center, University
of Washington.
Weight Loss Drugs Research Information
Links:
Research into GIP Hormone
Diet Pills
Research into Leptin Based Diet
Pills
Research into OEA Molecule
and Diet Pills
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