body weight, improves their sugar metabolism, and increases energy expenditure.A new paper that appears in the journal eLife suggests that the hormone has a similar effect in primates such as monkeys and humans.
This may mean that LCN2 could help people with obesity lose weight.Obesity is an increasingly serious worldwide health concern.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 2.8 million people die every year as a result of obesity or overweight.
This condition is also associated with other chronic health concerns, such as type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer, and depression, among others.Doctors typically class people as having overweight when they have a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or above, and they.