Slimming injections - a new method against obesity
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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A new way to bring your figure to an ideal state without diets and grueling physical exertion was found by British scientists. For this it is enough to pass a course of not too pleasant, but environmentally friendly injections. In case of a successful outcome about fears of losing your job, to be stupid or die in pursuit of harmony, you can forget. Researchers from Imperial College conducted a four-week trial, during which people were injected with oxyntomodulin - a hormone contained in the human's own intestine. It is usually secreted in the small intestine when eating and signals the brain when eaten enough.
Artificially increasing its number with the help of injections, physicians tried to open a new way of losing weight. Among the twenty-six fatties selected for the fourteen years, the hormone was administered three times a day half an hour before a meal. The remaining twelve at the same frequency received injections of saline solution, which removes liquid from the body. At the same time, neither the doctors nor the patients knew who received the injections.
As a result, fourteen lucky ones lost weight in four weeks on average by 2.3 kilograms, and the rest - only half a kilogram. At the same time, the receiving oxintomodulin sensed a considerable decrease in appetite, but they did not experience any decrease in the pleasure of absorbing their favorite foods. And the level of leptin - a protein that regulates the expenditure of body energy and the number of fat cells in the body - they also were lower.
The results of the experiment pleased and its participants and doctors. But physicians believe that more research will be required. "Every time you have breakfast or dinner you have your own oxyntomodulin, so it's not a medicine, it's safe and will never cause addiction," says Professor Steve Bloom. In the course of the experiment, patients, according to experts, significantly shed weight. Now it is necessary to study, to what effect will increase oxyntomodulin for a longer period of time and in combination with a change in sedentary lifestyle.
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