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posted by martyb on Saturday June 13 2020, @09:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the losing-is-winning dept.

Virginia Tech drug researcher develops 'fat burning' molecule that has implications for treatment of obesity (Science Daily)

"Obesity is the biggest health problem in the United States. But, it is hard for people to lose weight and keep it off; being on a diet can be so difficult. So, a pharmacological approach, or a drug, could help out and would be beneficial for all of society," said Webster Santos, professor of chemistry and the Cliff and Agnes Lilly Faculty Fellow of Drug Discovery in the College of Science at Virginia Tech.

Santos and his colleagues have recently identified a small mitochondrial uncoupler, named BAM15, that decreases the body fat mass of mice without affecting food intake and muscle mass or increasing body temperature. Additionally, the molecule decreases insulin resistance and has beneficial effects on oxidative stress and inflammation.

The findings, published in Nature Communications on May 14, 2020, hold promise for future treatment and prevention of obesity, diabetes, and especially nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a type of fatty liver disease that is characterized by inflammation and fat accumulation in the liver. In the next few years, the condition is expected to become the leading cause of liver transplants in the United States.

Mitochondrial uncoupler BAM15 reverses diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance in mice (open, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16298-2) (DX)

Mitochondrial uncoupler BAM15 inhibits artery constriction and potently activates AMPK in vascular smooth muscle cells (open, DOI: 10.1016/j.apsb.2018.07.010) (DX)

BAM15‐mediated mitochondrial uncoupling protects against obesity and improves glycemic control (open, DOI: 10.15252/emmm.202012088) (DX)


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  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:24PM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:24PM (#1007456)

    > Number one for me is access to places to exercise.

    Since I've been locked at home, or shielding as it's called here, due to this damned virus, access to places to exercise is somewhat limited.

    Add to that the people on my social media feeds posting about their multi-hour jaunts for their "approved" exercise (my quotes - because it's not approved, they just want to go out to nice places to do their exercise and spread disease), and the nice weather, and the frustration is palpable.

    This is why I have got bigger in lockdown/shielding, obviously.

    -21lbs bigger in fact.

    Yeah, that's a minus - I am a stone and a half lighter through staying at home.

    Exercise is something you do, a place is somewhere you go, the two are not related.

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