The researchers have identified an antioxidant compound that could help treat obesity and related disorders such as type-2 diabetes. They discovered that treating obese mice with an antioxidant called MnTBAP decreases obesity and improve type-2 diabetes. The obese mice which received the compound lost 40 per cent of its body weight. To be precise, if a 300 pound obese person lost 40 per cent of his body weight, he would have lost 120 pounds.
The compound works by breaking down triglycerides, which are stored in excess in fat tissue of obese people. The next step is to figure out how that happens and what are the cellular and molecular events that result in weight loss?”
Researchers Jonathan R Brestoff Parker, a Skidmore College graduate and Thomas H Reynolds, associate professor of health and exercise sciences – have been awarded a patent for the use of the compound.
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