liver
2 stories tagged "liver"
Metabolic & Weight
This Weight-Loss Hormone Protected Mouse Livers Without a Pound Lost. Novo Nordisk Supplied It and Put Two Scientists on the Study.
The hormone works through the same brainstem switch that makes weight-loss drugs nauseating, and the company developing it supplied the compound, funded the mouse study, and put two of its scientists on the author list.
Metabolic & WeightA Gut Microbe Was Feeding Ammonia to Sick Livers. A Michigan Peptide Cut Off the Supply in Monkeys.
The compound reversed severe fatty liver in monkeys by starving one ammonia-making gut bacterium. It also comes from a company its lead inventor founded, and no human has taken it for this.