{"id":75950,"date":"2018-02-12T22:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T06:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/researchers-discover-key-enzyme-sabotaging-our-weight-loss"},"modified":"2018-02-12T22:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T06:22:38","slug":"researchers-discover-key-enzyme-sabotaging-our-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/researchers-discover-key-enzyme-sabotaging-our-weight-loss","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover key enzyme sabotaging our weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-key-enzyme-sabotaging-our-weight-loss.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: A research team at UCSD discovered a key enzyme that plays a role in burning calories during both obesity and dieting and sabotages weight loss. Moreover, these scientists may have just found an existing drug that counteracts this enzyme. [<a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/researcher-enzyme-tbk1-sabotaging-weight-loss\/\">This article<\/a> first appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">website <a href=\"http:\/\/LongevityFacts.com\">LongevityFacts.com<\/a><\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman.<\/a> ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder why dieting often leads to a plateau in weight loss? It happens because the body is trying to maintain a steady weight by regulating the expenditure of energy. How this happens has remained a mystery until now.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published on February 8 in the journal Cell, a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine led by <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.ucsd.edu\/research\/IDMH\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Alan Saltiel, Ph.D.<\/a> has identified a key enzyme that sabotages weight loss efforts during dieting. Dr. Saltiel is the director of UCSD\u2019s Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health, and says.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/researcher-enzyme-tbk1-sabotaging-weight-loss\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/researcher-enzyme-tbk1-sabotaging-weight-loss\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A research team at UCSD discovered a key enzyme that plays a role in burning calories during both obesity and dieting and sabotages weight loss. Moreover, these scientists may have just found an existing drug that counteracts this enzyme. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman. ] Ever wonder why [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75950","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}