Yummy cheesy pizza and a diet coke ....(sounds funny,but to save me from the guilt of extra calories)....I can't resist eating but only with the strong resolution to start exercising from tomorrow morning itself...... but tomorrow never comes ...as i always look forward to another auspicious day.. I always wished if there could be something to wash away the fat ......
And I was wonderstruck to read about Harvard's new research innovation... a new hormone injection.....Irisin.... the ultimate dream of obese people and weight watchers across the world.
Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts, Harvard Medical School, University of California and Denmark’s Odense University Hospital, among others, have found that some of the most widely recognized effects of exercise on muscle are mediated by irisin. The study has been published in the latest issue of the scientific journal 'Nature'. Except for that it doesn't build muscles, all the other good things that happen after exercise can be reproduced with the drug...Another miracle from the great research happenings...
The hormone has been found to act in two ways. It promotes the conversion of inert yellow fat to the metabolically more active brown fat, and facilitates insulin action, thus decreasing blood glucose levels(great for diabetics... wow!!!). The researchers found irisin to be present in the blood of human volunteers who had undergone 10 weeks of exercise.
The researchers are continuing to explore irisins possible health benefits, including potentially even being used in the treatment of Parkinsons disease because the process appears to have protective effects on mitochondrial metabolism as well. The researchers again advocate strongly....... there is no substitute for toiling in the gym....
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irisin
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irisin
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