{"id":156407,"date":"2023-01-27T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-find-a-drug-that-treats-obesity-fatty-liver-heart-disease"},"modified":"2023-01-27T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T19:22:44","slug":"scientists-find-a-drug-that-treats-obesity-fatty-liver-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-find-a-drug-that-treats-obesity-fatty-liver-heart-disease","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find a drug that treats obesity, fatty liver, heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-a-drug-that-treats-obesity-fatty-liver-heart-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 40% of people living in the U.S. are obese; and 43% of American women over the age of 60\u2014long past menopause\u2014are considered obese. A recent Johns Hopkins study showed that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease, schizophrenia, and sickle cell disease could treat obesity and fatty liver and improve heart function\u2014without changes in food intake or daily activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 40% of people living in the U.S. are obese; and 43% of American women over the age of 60\u2014long past menopause\u2014are considered obese. A recent Johns Hopkins study showed that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease, schizophrenia, and sickle cell disease [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156407","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\/156407","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}