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

The Peter Attia Drive

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Do You Think the Obe Mouse Was Missing the Receptor for Circulating Hormones?

In the late 19 seventies, scientists began to look at what it is that permits a big fat cell to call up other fat cells. They wanted to know whether these fat cells were generating something that might act like a signal. At the time, jules hirsch was particularly interested in the fact that what happens when people get obese is that their fat cells expand up to a sort of maximum size.

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