Nicotine 'obesity drug' will be real.
“Smokers will soon be able to stub out their habit – without having to worry about piling on the pounds,” reported the Daily Mirror. It said that “scientists have discovered how nicotine suppresses the appetite and they can develop drugs to help people quit without consequences of addition of weight”.
This research involved a series of complex scientific experiments in mice. The scientists tried to investigate the way how nicotine causes the brain to send signals to the body to suppress appetite. The results showed that nicotine activates a group of nerve cells in an area of the brain called the hypothalamus (the small part of the brain that regulates hormones and automatic processes in the body). In such way these nerve cells activate other receptors in the body that regulate an appetite.
According to these searches we understand how nicotine may affect appetite, but it is important to note that this research was in mice. Also we should understand that could be similar processes in humans and mice, nicotine may not affect human appetite in exactly the same way in mice. Scientists will continue their studies and further they will help us to understand the effects in humans, and develop a new treatment for smokers to help them quit without putting on weight.
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(1)I could watch Schindler's List and still be happy after raeidng this.