Blocking a Protein to 'Brown' White Fat and Burn Calories (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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More than 30 million people in the united states have diabetes. and two in every three adults are considered to be either overweight or obese. now, new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a protein that could be used as a target to start reversing those trends by helping the body convert white fat, which stores calories, into something more like brown fat, which burns them. Jim Dryden has more...

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