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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 Ob Gen, the Ob Mouse, the Lepton.

Roude: Obegen showed up almost solely, virtually solely in atapos tissue. The name that was given to the protein is lepton, which was chosen because it had an effect to lighten the body weight of an animal. This wasn't known at the time, because the jean, first jean to be cloaned, was the o b jean. So now you have it that the fat cell secretes lepton, and the o b mouse can't make lepton, correct? And the d b mouse makes all the lepton in the world.

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