metabolism
7 stories tagged "metabolism"
Berkeley Dusted Off a Shelved 1970s Fat Compound That Burns Energy Instead of Appetite, and in Mice It Spared the Muscle
GLP-1 drugs quiet your appetite, and along with the fat they can pull out a real chunk of muscle. A shelved acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitor from the 1970s went after the other lever, energy burned, and in obese mice it left the lean mass alone.
Nutrition & FoodThey Doubled the Recommended Protein This Year. 350 Studies Say That's Backwards for Sedentary Adults.
Federal guidance now tells you to eat nearly twice the protein it used to. A University of Wisconsin review of more than 350 studies argues that for people who don't train hard, the extra may be speeding up the aging they're trying to outrun.
Metabolic & WeightYour Fat Cells Remember Being Fat, and That Memory Outlasts the Weight Loss
Your body defends its heaviest weight for years after you lose it, which is why the rebound isn't weak willpower and why the injection only works while you keep paying for it.
Autoimmune & InflammationA Chinese Bark Compound Reached the Black-Box Arthritis Drugs' Pathway From Upstream, in Rats
In rats, a compound from the bark of the Amur cork tree reached the same JAK-STAT pathway as Xeljanz and its black-box cousins, but by rebalancing the cell's fat metabolism instead of blocking the pathway directly.
Autoimmune & InflammationThe Allergy Cell Everyone Wanted Dead Turns Out to Run Your Gut Lining and Your Metabolism
Eosinophils were the villain of asthma and allergy, the cell whole-body drugs are built to erase. A decade of tissue biology says they also seal your gut, feed your antibodies, and tune your fat, and the trials never measured any of it.
Brain & AgingLongevity Clinics Sell Growth Hormone by the Vial. In Deep Sleep, Your Brain Makes It Free.
The muscle-building, fat-burning hormone that anti-aging clinics inject at a premium is the same one your hypothalamus releases every night you reach deep sleep. Berkeley mapped how, in mice, and the headline is already running ahead of the biology.
Metabolic & WeightSwitch Off One Protein Called Mitch, and Cells Start Eating Their Own Fat
Women with obesity carry more of it. Disable it in mice and they turn lean and muscular at once, the opposite of what the injectable weight-loss drugs do to your body.