{"id":118893,"date":"2021-01-26T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T20:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/stomach-implant-tells-your-brain-youre-not-hungry"},"modified":"2021-01-26T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T20:22:34","slug":"stomach-implant-tells-your-brain-youre-not-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/stomach-implant-tells-your-brain-youre-not-hungry","title":{"rendered":"Stomach Implant Tells Your Brain You\u2019re Not Hungry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stomach-implant-tells-your-brain-youre-not-hungry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tiny implant offers a new weight loss option, and a gastric bypass alternative, for people suffering from obesity.<\/p>\n<p>The device uses light to stimulate the nerve responsible for regulating food intake. A tiny glow from the implant and users don\u2019t feel as hungry \u2014 instead, they feel full.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Texas A&amp;M say that this dime-sized device could provide a far less invasive surgical option than the so-called stomach stapling surgery \u2014 which is currently a last resort surgery for obese patients. This could be a viable option for a gastric bypass alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny implant offers a new weight loss option, and a gastric bypass alternative, for people suffering from obesity. The device uses light to stimulate the nerve responsible for regulating food intake. A tiny glow from the implant and users don\u2019t feel as hungry \u2014 instead, they feel full. Researchers at Texas A&amp;M say that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}