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Chinese Medicine May Hold The Promise To Cut Obesity – Herbal Extract Drastically Reduces Food Intake And Helps Shed Weight

An ancient Chinese medicine may hold the key to addressing obesity. The herbal extract managed to significantly reduce the food intake of mice and helped them shed body weight.

An extract from the Thunder God vine, used in traditional Chinese medicine, helped mice fight and win over obesity. Researchers are confident that the compound Celastrol was the main active ingredient that quickly reduced food intake by up to 80 percent and caused up to a 45 percent decrease in body weight of the lab rodents.

Scientists working with the extract and the active ingredient feel the medicine could be used to improve the health of many suffering from obesity. If that’s not all, the extract could even alleviate and perhaps successfully arrest associated complications such as heart disease, fatty liver, and type-2 diabetes before they threaten the human body, said senior study author Umut Ozcan, an endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

“If Celastrol works in humans as it does in mice, it could be a powerful way to treat obesity and improve the health of many patients.”

Just how effective is Celastrol? Within a mere week of administering the Chinese medicine, obese mice cut their food intake by about 80 percent. By the time the third week had rolled out, mice that were still taking Celastrol had lost 45 percent of their initial body weight. What’s fascinating is the fact that the medicine doesn’t touch healthy lien fat, but attacks “fat stores” that are typically located near the mid-section, under the arms, and thighs.

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