Leptin may be going to raise its ugly head again...)o:

Failed obesity wonder drug Leptin revived by new research
article in the Telegraph

Extract:

"Leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone, was greeted with great excitement more than a decade ago with many academics believing that it could be a cure for obesity.

But hopes soon dimmed when it was found that overweight people became unresponsive to Leptin very quickly due to the development of resistance in the brain.

Now its reputation could be revived after researchers have found a way to stop the brain blocking its influence.

Scientists at Harvard University have found that the substances Buphenyl (4-PBA) and Tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA), both available in pills, stop the brain from ignoring Leptin.

Their findings, published in Cell Metabolism, suggest that it once again could help the growing weight problem around the world.

"Everyone in the field thought they would get the Nobel," said Dr Umut Ozcan, who led the study, about the period when Leptin was first discovered."

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