Losing weight: “Obesity will become a problem that is easier to tame”
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|The success of weight-loss injections is spectacular. But they don't help everyone. Hormone expert Jens Brüning is committed to offering more personalized support to overweight people in the future.
The discovery was spectacular: About 30 years ago, New York researchers discovered the hormone leptin, which became famous as the "satiety hormone." Leptin signals to the brain that one has eaten enough. A weight-loss pill seemed within reach, but it never came. Instead, successful weight-loss injections with a completely different mechanism of action were recently approved. Does this mean the end of leptin research? Hormone expert Jens Brüning says: quite the opposite. Using leptin and other hormones, the injections could be even more effective in the future.
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