#33 - Rudy Leibel, M.D.: Finding the obesity gene and discovering leptin
The Peter Attia Drive
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Do You Think Lepton Can Regulate or Depress Your Appetite?
There was a major trial of the use of lepton as a therapeutic agent in obese individuals, and neither the obese individuals or the lean individuals who were in the study as controls, responded very much. So if you gave me enough lepton to raise my serum levels to levels that i rarely see clinical,. It's very unusual that i'll see a leptin level, even in an overweight patient, more than about forty or 50. When i check leptin levels on patience, which i always do, i always want to see leptin. I want to see ata penect and i wants to see insolen, i want to see nife, f f a, et cetera.
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