A breakthrough development in the fight against obesity and type 2 diabetes could improve the lives of millions of people. A new generation of drugs, polyagonists, has the potential to dramatically reduce body weight and increase feelings of satiety. These artificial hormones imitate the action of natural gut hormones and interfere with metabolic processes in the brain, leading to impressive results.
With the new type of medication, weight reductions similar to those achieved with surgical stomach reduction can be achieved: The polyagonists bind increasingly to the receptors for GLP-1 and GIP in the brain and enhance the feeling of satiety. The results are so convincing that this year the first representative of this new substance class was approved in the USA and Europe for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
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Künstliche Hormone erleichtern das Abnehmen | SYNERGIE (dzg-magazin.de)
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Further information in our news from October 23, 2023: SYNERGIE: Blood Reflects Health and Diseases
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The goal of the German Centers for Health Research is translational research: the accelerated development of medical innovations. On the initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, six centers were founded between 2009 and 2011 to better understand the causes of widespread diseases and to transfer research results from the laboratory to practice more quickly. The centers are dedicated to the following diseases: Cancer (DKTK), neurodegenerative diseases (DZNE), infectious diseases (DZIF), diabetes (DZD), lung diseases (DZL) and cardiovascular diseases (DZHK).
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