A metabolite that suppresses appetite and food intake after exercise could be the reason for the weight loss observed in patients treated with metformin to control blood glucose. A study conducted by ...

A common medication used for type 2 diabetes is gaining major attention for a surprising reason. New research suggests ...

In 2015, researchers discovered that levels of the metabolite Lac-Phe spike after exercise (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424638112), but Jonathan Long’s Stanford University lab ...

Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine, Stanford University, and partner institutions have discovered how exercise helps curb appetite at the molecular level. Their findings, published in Nature ...

Why don’t you feel hungry right after a hard workout? A report published June 15 in Nature describes a molecule called lac-phe that spikes right after exercise, suppresses appetite and in the longer ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in the journal Cell the discovery of BHB-Phe, a novel compound produced by the ...

University of Miami researchers found that type 2 diabetes drug metformin can help cancer patients by activating a molecule ...