“What’s all this then?” ping.
A serial link to the abstract about fatostatin from Chemistry & Biology. IIRC, it lowers the good HDL-cholesterol too.
Discovery Of 'Fatostatin' A Turnoff For Fat Genes
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I have found that newsmax tends to publish some way-out-there health stories and claims. You have to take what they print about health with a grain of salt... but, I think you could say that about most health-related stories. Everybody seems to have some astounding study to report these days.
Speaking of such... here’s one that might interest you. :-)
Kudzu extract may be useful in treating metabolic syndrome
http://ihealthbulletin.com/blog/2009/08/30/kudzu-supplement-metabolic-syndrome/
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