Surely at some point in your life you have decided to go on a diet with the aim of being able to eliminate that abdominal fat or those extra kilos that, in your opinion, do not make you as attractive as you would like. Without a doubt, an effort that very few people are able to endure in their day-to-day life until they achieve their goal. What if in not too long this is no longer necessary?
To answer precisely this question, today I want to talk to you about a project that has been carried out by a group made up of researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center, located in New York, and the University of North Carolina. We are talking about a peculiar patch consisting of thousands of microneedles which has the ability to break down accumulated fat.
Without a doubt, what this method proposes us in principle is to be able to eat everything we want, not to do physical exercise and not to gain weight. On the one hand, the idea may seem very tempting, although it is also true that, for our own good, the ideal is not precisely a sedentary lifestyle, but do our daily training, each one according to their needs and especially at their level.
This patch developed in the United States can eliminate localized fat without the need for diet or physical exercise
Returning to the patch itself, tell you that, at least during the first tests of it, we have been working with a system that was placed on the skin and that, thanks to being composed of thousands of microneedles, supplies a drug locally with the ability to convert white fat and brown fat deposits.
Developing this a little more, especially so that there is no doubt about what this patch does, at least in principle, tell you that not all the fat we have in our body is the same. The white fat deposits are those that store excess energy while the brown fat cells, on the contrary, are in charge of maintaining body temperature and generating the necessary heat to maintain vital functions. This makes precisely these brown fat cells are eliminated from the body much more quickly without being accumulated in permanent deposits.
How could it be otherwise, this class of drugs already exists on the marketI am talking about substances capable of transforming white fat into brown fat, but today practically all of them are administered orally or with injections, which causes them to circulate throughout the body producing several undesirable side effects such as It can be digestive upset and even bone fractures.
At this point I would like to expose you verbatim the words of li qian, one of the directors of the study who summarizes in a very clear way what this new patch does:
Our skin patch appears to alleviate these complications as most of the medication is delivered directly into adipose tissue.
The team of researchers hopes to begin human trials in the short term
At the moment the patch has already been tested in obese mice so that the drug was administered inside the patch and this was placed in the fat areas of the same. During about four weeks the patch was changed about three times a day and the result obtained was quite good since mice lost 20% of the fat in the treated area while, in turn, lowered their blood glucose levels.
As the researchers in charge of the development of this interesting project have commented, the next step is to start testing this patch in humans, although, for this, you must first study which is the most suitable combination of drugs to be applied in people.
According to the teacher li qian:
No doubt, many people will be delighted to learn that we can offer a non-invasive alternative to liposuction to reduce love handles. But it is much more important that our patch can provide a safe and effective means of treating obesity and related metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes,