{"id":227857,"date":"2025-12-26T05:24:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-boost-mitochondria-to-burn-more-calories"},"modified":"2025-12-26T05:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:24:58","slug":"scientists-boost-mitochondria-to-burn-more-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-boost-mitochondria-to-burn-more-calories","title":{"rendered":"Scientists boost mitochondria to burn more calories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-boost-mitochondria-to-burn-more-calories.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed experimental drugs that encourage the mitochondria in our cells to work a little harder and burn more calories. The findings could open the door to new treatments for obesity and improve metabolic health.<\/p>\n<p>Obesity is a global epidemic and a risk factor for many diseases, including diabetes and cancer. Current obesity drugs require injections and can cause side effects, so a safe way to boost weight loss could deliver significant public health benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by Associate Professor Tristan Rawling from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), has just been <a href=\"https:\/\/xlink.rsc.org\/?DOI=D5SC06530E\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Chemical Science<\/i>, where it was highlighted as \u201cpick of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed experimental drugs that encourage the mitochondria in our cells to work a little harder and burn more calories. The findings could open the door to new treatments for obesity and improve metabolic health. Obesity is a global epidemic and a risk factor for many diseases, including diabetes and cancer. Current obesity drugs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227857","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}