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7 January 2014
An antioxidant compound that could help treat obesity and related disorders such as type-2 diabetes has been identified by researchers.
The antioxidant, called MnTBAP decreases obesity and improves type-2 diabetes and it has been discovered by researchers by treating obese mice with this particular antioxidant and the obese mice that received the compound lost 40 per cent of their body weight.
‘To put that number in context, if a 300-pound (136 kg)obese person lost 40 per cent of their body weight, they would have lost 120 pounds (54 kg).
Researchers Jonathan R Brestoff Parker, a Skidmore College graduate and Thomas H Reynolds, associate professor ofhealth and exercise sciences – have been awarded a patent for the use of the compound.
How the compound works:
It works by breaking down triglycerides, which are stored in excess in fat tissue of obese people.
According to Reynolds, the research's next step is to figure out how that happens.
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