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New Experimental Drug Targets Dangerous Belly Fat by Killing Fat Cells
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New Experimental Drug Targets Dangerous Belly Fat by Killing Fat Cells

Here’s something most of my patients don’t know: when you lose weight, your fat cells don’t go away. They just get smaller, and they’re ready to fill back up the moment your habits slip. That’s a big reason so many people regain weight after a diet or after stopping a GLP-1 medication. Now researchers are…

New Injection Targets Belly Fat by Destroying Fat Cells, Early Trials Show
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New Injection Targets Belly Fat by Destroying Fat Cells, Early Trials Show

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy help many people lose weight, but keeping it off after stopping the medication is hard. An experimental injection called CBL-514 takes a different approach. Instead of shrinking fat cells, it makes them die off on their own. In early human trials, it reduced both the fat under the skin…

Breathwork Can Change Your State of Mind — A New Brain Scan Study Shows How
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Breathwork Can Change Your State of Mind — A New Brain Scan Study Shows How

You probably haven’t thought about your breathing today, but how you breathe affects your stress, your focus, and your brain. Breathwork, which means breathing exercises meant to shift your mental and emotional state, is gaining ground in therapy for stress and mental health. One form, high ventilation breathwork, uses rapid, deep breathing, and people who…

40Hz Light and Sound Therapy for Alzheimer’s: What the Science Shows So Far
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40Hz Light and Sound Therapy for Alzheimer’s: What the Science Shows So Far

Picture an Alzheimer’s treatment with no pills, no infusions, and no surgery, just an hour a day of light flickering and sound pulsing 40 times per second. It sounds too simple to work, yet it has reached phase III clinical testing. The need is real. Newer drugs clear amyloid plaques but slow decline by only…

Olive Oil Before Carbs Lowered Blood Sugar Spikes in Mice, Study Finds
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Olive Oil Before Carbs Lowered Blood Sugar Spikes in Mice, Study Finds

Two groups of mice received the same amount of olive oil and the same amount of glucose. Only one group had a smaller blood sugar spike, and the difference was which one came first. The response behind it was not what you’d expect, since it involved glucagon, a hormone known for raising blood sugar, along…

Yale Researchers Test an Epilepsy Drug for Osteoarthritis Pain and Cartilage Loss
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Yale Researchers Test an Epilepsy Drug for Osteoarthritis Pain and Cartilage Loss

A drug used to prevent seizures may one day help people with aching joints. Researchers at Yale tested lacosamide, an epilepsy medication, in early experiments on osteoarthritis. It eased pain and helped protect cartilage at the same time. It does this by acting on a single protein found in both pain nerves and cartilage cells….

New Research Offers Hope for Retinal Disease by Targeting a Protein That Blocks Repair
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New Research Offers Hope for Retinal Disease by Targeting a Protein That Blocks Repair

If you lose retinal cells to disease, they stay lost. That rule is why conditions like retinitis pigmentosa and glaucoma are so hard to treat. Zebrafish don’t follow it. They regrow damaged retinal neurons using support cells called Müller glia, and mammals have the same cells. They just don’t use them. A team at KAIST…

Researchers Question Whether Alzheimer’s Proteins Can Spread Through Donated Blood

Researchers Question Whether Alzheimer’s Proteins Can Spread Through Donated Blood

Few things in medicine are as routine, or as life-saving, as a blood transfusion. Patients receive them after accidents, during surgery, and through cancer treatment, and most never give it a second thought. Now a group of researchers is asking whether donated blood could carry more than blood. A new review in The Lancet examines whether proteins…