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An experimental weight-loss drug that aims to help people burn fat has been trialled in mice, and the results suggest that it successfully boosts their metabolisms and helps them lose weight.
Known as GC-1, the drug sheds weight by turning it from 'bad' white fat into 'good' brown-like fat, which burns up energy.
"GC-1 dramatically increases the metabolic rate, essentially converting white fat, which stores excess calories and is associated with obesity and metabolic disease, into a fat like calorie-burning brown fat," lead researcher Kevin Phillips from the Houston Methodist Research Institute in the US said in a press release.
http://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-drug-that-turns-bad-fat-into-good-fat-is-being-trialled-in-mice
Known as GC-1, the drug sheds weight by turning it from 'bad' white fat into 'good' brown-like fat, which burns up energy.
"GC-1 dramatically increases the metabolic rate, essentially converting white fat, which stores excess calories and is associated with obesity and metabolic disease, into a fat like calorie-burning brown fat," lead researcher Kevin Phillips from the Houston Methodist Research Institute in the US said in a press release.
http://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-drug-that-turns-bad-fat-into-good-fat-is-being-trialled-in-mice