BOC Sciences Release: A Natural Compound Was Found Helpful Against Obesity

A brand new drug battling obesity may come into light very soon. It will be safer and less painful for the patient who have been suffering from obesity, as the drug applies an unprecedented theory which achieves the aim of decreasing weight by influencing the hormone inhibiting energy supplement signals to brain. The main substance of the new drug is celastrol, found in the roots of a toxic plant-Thunder God Vine. Every part of the plant is poisonous, but celastrol, a kind of natural compound existing in the root can be used in treatments of obesity by increasing the sensitivity to hormones related to the food intake control.

In the experiments on rats, averagely 45% percent of weight decrease was presented on the rats who took the drug orally, whilst these rats ate less. It’s showed that the drug does be effective in losing weight. But how does the drug work to make the receivers achieve a weight decrease so effectively? It will be a little complicated to comprehend. The mechanism shed into light when scientists connected celastrol with leptin, a type of hormone helping keep the energy balance by inhibiting hunger. When there is enough energy for the overall metabolism, body will produce leptin signaling the brain to eat less.

At the very early stage, about 20 years ago, the performance of leptin was not as the expectation of researchers. It only took effects on the lean rat, and no weight change happened to the obese rats. After taking the oral dose of leptin, lean rats became leaner, but the fat ones keep the same state in weight. Celastrol can activate the sensitivity of leptin, and always express the signal to brain to eat less, thus make weight decrease with a smaller appetite. But the experiments on rats also showed that if there is no leptin in the body, celastrol won’t take effect, which means the celastrol will help to lose weight on the condition that the patient is carrying with leptin or the corresponding receptor. At present the new drug for obesity is still under research, but it will be applied into human bodies hormone preventing the brain from eating more, celastrol will be a totally different while much safer and more effective treatment for obesity, but with condition that the patients are with leptin or leptin receptor in their bodies.

Celastrol will make the group who need these kind of safe and effective drug desperately against the considerable fat on their bodies and gain a kind of comfort. For. Talking about losing weight, the first thing many people would like to say is that eating less combining more exercise is the best way, and in the often case they will comment like that with much ease in their tone. However, not every body with obesity will be beneficial from eating less and doing more exercise and of course, not every one among these people became obese for that they had ate too much and did little sports. Sometimes what they need are only care and encouragement. Hope the new drug will be issued soon and help those unhappy obese people out of the trap.

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