Burning the stomach lining reduces the ‘hunger hormone’ and cuts weight

[Lesnic Andrei]

Blasting a patch of patients’ stomach lining with thermal energy curbed hunger and cut pounds, researchers reported in a small pilot study to be presented at the annual Digestive Disease Week meeting on May 19 in Washington, D.C. The study’s authors pinned participants’ weight loss on reduction of a hunger hormone called ghrelin. The hormone acts like a dinner bell for the brain, sending the message that it’s time to eat. Less ghrelin means fewer hungry feelings. There isn’t a drug available to lower the hormone’s level in the blood, but doctors can directly target the tissue that makes ghrelin. Cells lining the upper portion of the stomach pump out most of the hormone. Burning these cells away should lead to weight loss, reasoned study coauthor Christopher McGowan, a gastroenterologist at True You Weight Loss, a clinic in Cary, N.C.     https://www.sciencenews.org/article/burn-stomach-lining-ghrelin-weight-loss      

Doctors threaded an endoscope (black tube) down a patient’s throat and into their stomach (left). Then, they burned away a patch of tissue lining the upper part of the organ (gray section, right). That destroyed cells that produce a key hunger hormone.

 

Ideea e a inca nu exista tratament sau remediu pentru/impotriva hormonului *grelina* care provoaca foamea la oameni. Am putea sa facem o cercetare in culturile antice, si cu cunostintele pe care le mai are domnu doctor am putea crea un remediu natural impotriva acestui hormon/foamei, astfel nu am mai fii nevoiti sa distrugem parti din corpul nostru.