New fat-fighting drug has anti-diabetes action too

As does weight loss. And you do not have to buy a pill, and all it side effects, for that.

"Researchers searching for a cure for obesity said on Thursday they have developed a drug that not only makes mice lose weight, but reverses diabetes and lowers their cholesterol, too.

The drug, which they have dubbed fatostatin, stops the body from making fat, instead releasing the energy from food. They hope it may lead to a pill that would fight obesity, diabetes and cholesterol, all at once.

Writing in the journal Chemistry and Biology, Salih Wakil of Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, Motonari Uesugi of Kyoto University in Japan and colleagues said the drug interferes with a suite of genes turned on by overeating...

Scientists are painfully aware that drugs that can make mice thin do nothing of the sort in humans. A hormone called leptin can make rats and mice drop weight almost miraculously but does little or nothing for an obese person, for instance.

But Wakil, whose team has patented the drug and is looking for a drug company to partner with, hopes this drug may be different. 'I am very, very optimistic,' he said."

Besides asking "Who gives a s**t about this moron's optimism?", of course he is since there is money to be taken from others in pursuit of this crap.

"Genetic tests showed the drug affected 63 different genes."

The fallout from which they have no idea.

Bad drug.

Good name, however.