Researchers Find An Enzyme In Mice Associated With Obesity, Loss Of Exercise Capacity In Mid-Life.

reports researchers from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute “say they’ve found an enzyme in mice associated with obesity and a loss of exercise capacity in midlife.” In findings published in the journal Cell Metabolism, investigators described how one group of mice received “a drug that inhibits the activity of the enzyme called DNA-PK,” while “another group of mice wasn’t given the drug.” Both groups of mice were fed a diet high in fat. The mice that “received the inhibitor had 40 percent less weight gain than the other group,” the study revealed. https://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/animal-research-956/is-this-enzyme-making-you-fat-722280.html