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“There's an old adage that the boxer is the last one to know – it's not true, he's the first one to know, but the last to acknowledge it. You can learn from defeat – it's not the end of the world, but you have to learn from it.”— Frank Warren
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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.
— Jens Juul HolstIt 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 HolstNobody 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 HolstWe 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 HolstIt should remain a prescription drug — because you need instructions at the same time on what to do.
— Jens Juul Holst