{"id":170195,"date":"2023-08-22T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-develop-drug-that-prevents-weight-gain-in-junk-food-eating-mice"},"modified":"2023-08-22T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:22:20","slug":"scientists-develop-drug-that-prevents-weight-gain-in-junk-food-eating-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-develop-drug-that-prevents-weight-gain-in-junk-food-eating-mice","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Develop Drug That Prevents Weight Gain in Junk-Food-Eating Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-drug-that-prevents-weight-gain-in-junk-food-eating-mice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now maybe we can snack happily! I think this applies to regular food too? I can eat all the Chinese and Mexican and Italian food I want? Plus for people with genetic risks can\u2019t this not help? I hope so.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Mice fed a high-sugar, high-fat diet for most of their lives managed to escape weight gain and protect their livers when they were treated with an experimental new drug.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/techtransfer\/2021\/02\/the-differences-between-small-molecule-drugs-and-biological-drugs\/\">small-molecule drug<\/a> was developed by a team led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio). K nown by its chemical acronym CPACC, it works by limiting the entry of magnesium into the mitochondria, the parts of the cell in charge of generating energy and burning calories.<\/p>\n<p>Mitochondrial abnormalities have been implicated in a range of diseases, including obesity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/diabetes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">diabetes<\/a>, and cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now maybe we can snack happily! I think this applies to regular food too? I can eat all the Chinese and Mexican and Italian food I want? Plus for people with genetic risks can\u2019t this not help? I hope so. Mice fed a high-sugar, high-fat diet for most of their lives managed to escape weight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170195","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\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}