Personally I prefer going to the gym and sweating my body out to lose weight than to patronize those slimming pills that you see in countless advertisements. But this news that I just saw on Yahoo will definitely attract many people with
major weight problems, especially those who have lost hope with gym sessions. A California biotech is on its way to developing a way to lose weight without having to excercise.
A San Diego company named Amylin are conducting
initial tests on the pramlintide-leptin combination. Their experiment have shown corpulent rats losing 12 percent of their body weight using pramlintide-leptin. It is not far possible that a 300-pound man could lose 36 pounds just by taking drugs. Developers of the drug said that when pramlintide is taken alone by humans, it will trigger more than 3 percent weight loss, compared to leptin that did nothing. But this research, while still on its early phase, had already been flocked by cynicism. Wyeth pulled its weight-losing drug fen-phen in 1997 after being linked to heart valve disease. The market desperate to lose weight have been scared since then. Critics are raising contentions that pramlintide-leptin may have different result in humans as that of the rats. Until the testing is done and controversies have died down, I invite you to hit the gym while you wait for the result.
