Sensation: the tablet will turn bad fat into muscle

Scientists at Columbia University have taken another step in the fight against the global epidemic of obesity. They came up as available in the body to turn fat into muscle.

This discovery could be a milestone in the prevention of the epidemic obesity   and associated type 2 diabetes. The costs of developed countries to combat these diseases tens of billions of dollars, and they are constantly growing, being a burden to taxpayers. But to give up fatty foods, and force yourself to do sports people are still unwilling.

In humans, there are two types of fat - the "bad" (white) and "good" (brown). In the "bad" fat is stored energy, it grows because of sedentary lifestyles. A "good" fat is converted to muscle and burns quickly. American researchers have found the same switch, which will turn white fat into brown, which will accelerate the process of metabolism in the body and lead to weight loss.

Fat can be brown with medication from the group tiazolidionov (TZD), activating cells called PPAR-gamma, increases sensitivity to insulin. However, medicine has refrained from this method, since it promises a lot of serious side effects such as liver toxic poisoning, loss of bone mass and, as paradoxical as it may sound, weight gain.

But researchers from Columbia University in mice were able to make white fat brown, increasing the activity of an enzyme called sirtuins. They created a mutated version of the PPAR-gamma, imitating the sirtuins, that is, turning white fat into brown. The study is published in the journal Cell. They open up the possibility of creating new ways to combat the epidemic   obesity , Because of which in the Russian die prematurely tens of thousands of people.

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