Appetite boosting hormone discovered
The New Scientist has an article about a study conducted by a research team led by Alain Dagher at McGill University in Montreal about the effects of the hormone ghrelin:
Made in the stomach, ghrelin levels rise when people are hungry and wane after a meal. People who get injections of the hormone gorge themselves, while those suffering from a rare disease that keeps ghrelin levels unusually high tend to be obese overeaters.
“I think it’s the most powerful appetite stimulant that has ever been found,” Dagher says.
The article says that drugs that block ghrelin are in the under development at pharmaceutical companies.
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SPBBBMB said
May 7, 2008 @ 7:53 pm
…..now, can they invent some super swallowing pill, and flash-like hand speed medicine?!?
Anonymous said
May 7, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
Ha. Ha. thats funny!
Badlands Booker said
May 7, 2008 @ 11:38 pm
Ghrelin is old news. I knew about this like 5 years ago.
Anonymous said
May 8, 2008 @ 1:55 am
This is 2 yrs old news
try to find more updated news .
anonymous said
May 8, 2008 @ 9:47 am
They give this stuff to people suffering from aids or malnutrition. It would not surprose me one bit if several ifoce members have used this drug to make themselves great eaters. If true, how sad .