It is, in fact, what we call an enterogastrone hormone — an ileal brake hormone — that sends the signal that enough is enough, stop.
— It is, in fact, what we call an enterogastrone hormone“Remember that back in 1950, they invented something called the computer that allows you to do more complex calculations than you could with a paper and pencil. Computers allow us to use much more sophisticated statistical techniques to calculate seasonal adjustments, which mean that we do not need to use year-over-year calculations.”— John Brynjolfsson
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What we have in the colon may actually be a kind of defence system regulating the mucosal integrity of the body.
— What we have in the colon may actually be a kind of defence system regulating the mucosal integrity of the body.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.
— 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…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.”
— Nobody in the beginning believed that it was possible to create an obesity treatment with this kind of drug. Everybody would say, “oh,…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.
— We have a compound that, as one of its main functions, really addresses precisely this. It remedies the inflammation and the toxic…It should remain a prescription drug — because you need instructions at the same time on what to do.
— It should remain a prescription drug