A study
from Nanyang Technological University has lead researchers to a new ways to
prevent obesity, help aging ones, and to fight against health problems. A
protein called myostatin that controls muscle cell growth is the reason for
muscle loss and other negative effects to the body. When high levels of myostatin
is attached a muscle cell it creates a heavy loss of mitochondria. Mitochondria
are responsible for energy production which keeps cells alive. With this
extreme loss, the muscle cell goes to waste since there is a lack of energy. A
small loss of mitochondria is needed to regenerate new cells but when a person
has a chronic disease or is bed-ridden, high levels of myostatin are in the
body that causes muscle loss. If we block myostatin from binding with cells,
there will be no more loss of muscle. This will be great for people with
chronic disease since they don’t eat well and lose muscle from that. Also, this
would help obesity because people that are bed-ridden can follow this procedure
and lose weight and not muscle from not moving all day.
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