{"id":99266,"date":"2019-12-02T17:42:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T01:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/brain-receptor-that-regulates-body-heat-may-also-help-accelerate-weight-loss"},"modified":"2019-12-02T17:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T01:42:57","slug":"brain-receptor-that-regulates-body-heat-may-also-help-accelerate-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/brain-receptor-that-regulates-body-heat-may-also-help-accelerate-weight-loss","title":{"rendered":"Brain receptor that regulates body heat may also help accelerate weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-receptor-that-regulates-body-heat-may-also-help-accelerate-weight-loss3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obesity is an important issue.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The brain mechanism that enables us to maintain a constant body temperature may also be the key to rapid weight loss, a new study finds. In experiments involving mice that were given a calorie-restricted diet, scientists at Scripps Research discovered that blocking a brain receptor that normally regulates body heat resulted in significant weight reductions.<\/p>\n<p>The findings will be further explored as a potential treatment approach for obesity, which the World Health Organization has called a global epidemic. Obesity affects virtually all age and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/socioeconomic+groups\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">socioeconomic groups<\/a>\u2014increasing risk for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart disease<\/a>, stroke, diabetes, cancer and many other serious health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The new study, led by Scripps Research Professor Bruno Conti, Ph.D., appears in Current Biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity is an important issue. The brain mechanism that enables us to maintain a constant body temperature may also be the key to rapid weight loss, a new study finds. In experiments involving mice that were given a calorie-restricted diet, scientists at Scripps Research discovered that blocking a brain receptor that normally regulates body heat [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99266","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=99266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}