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It is, in fact, what we call an enterogastrone hormone — an ileal brake hormone — that sends the signal that enough is enough, stop.

— Jens Juul Holst

What we have in the colon may actually be a kind of defence system regulating the mucosal integrity of the body.

— Jens Juul Holst

It was possible to get up to 0.4 milligrammes per day, and all of a sudden there was a 14 to 15 per cent weight loss. That changed the whole picture.

— Jens Juul Holst

Nobody in the beginning believed that it was possible to create an obesity treatment with this kind of drug. Everybody would say, “oh, it’s their own fault.”

— Jens Juul Holst

We have a compound that, as one of its main functions, really addresses precisely this. It remedies the inflammation and the toxic consequences of obesity.

— Jens Juul Holst

It should remain a prescription drug — because you need instructions at the same time on what to do.

— Jens Juul Holst