Leptin-Based Pill To Control Hunger In Development At Universite De Montreal

A Université de Montréal research team is developing a pill composed of leptin, the protein that tells our brain to stop eating. “Mice deprived of leptin will not stop eating. They become so big they have trouble moving around,” says Moïse Bendayan, a pathology professor at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine who has studied the leptin protein extensively…

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Filed under: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness on January 31st, 2010