Many people are looking for ways to become fit and healthy. This is more so as more people today are prone to becoming overweight due to diet. There might be hope, as the brain hormone that helps in far burning has been discovered.
For people who want to be fit or are into fitness, finding the best way to burn fat is the key. Many products try to be the best in fat burning, but a number don't work as intended. Biologists from The Scripps Research Institute have found a brain hormone that could possibly change that.
Serotonin has been known to help in fat loss. Scientists though don't know how that exactly happens. Senior author and TSRI assistant professor Supriya Srinivasan has studied how serotonin works by studying the C. elegans roundworms.
For the study the researchers deleted some genes from C. elegans. Then they tested each gene to see which of them could help serotonin with fat burning. Through this method the researchers eventually discovered the gene that has the hormone FLP-7.
The researchers have also learned that the version of the hormone found in mammals has already been identified 80 years ago. The hormone then was viewed by scientists as somehow connected to the gut, but it wasn't identified then to have an impact on fat burning. The study then looked if FLP-7 could directly have any effect on serotonin levels.
Lavinia Palamiuc, first author of the study and TSRI research associate, studied how FLP-7 could affect serotonin. Her study has shown that FLP-7 comes from neurons in the brain to respond to high serotonin levels, according to The Scripps Research Institute's site. The fat burning process then starts after the release of FLP-7.
The researchers also manipulated FLP-7 levels in order to see its effects. No apparent side effects were noticed when FLP-7 levels were increased, as Science Daily reports. This could have good implications if ever this could also be done on people.
Future studies on FLP-7 and its effects would be made. This might help people who are looking for better ways to burn fat. A brain hormone that helps in fat burning has been discovered. Obesity surgery for obese teens have also worked well.
