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#33 - Rudy Leibel, M.D.: Finding the obesity gene and discovering leptin

The Peter Attia Drive

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The Lepton Levels Are Low, but Proportional to the Reduced Body Fat

The body was sensing the reduction in lo in lepton and interpreting that as a starvation state. The new lower body weight represented a threat, if you will, to survival or reproduction. And we've done experiments subsequently in which we've inject lepton into those individuals. None of them has a genetic relesion of southern leeeey, just weight reduce normal individuals.

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