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24 stories for“obesity research”
A pair-feeding study found tirzepatide, the drug in Zepbound and Mounjaro, activated thermogenic markers in brown fat and improved glucose tolerance in obese mice even when food intake was matched to untreated animals.
Sep 29, 2026
A study of 2,031 young patients aged 10 to 17 found vitamin D deficiency in 12.4 per cent within a year of starting a GLP-1 drug, while fewer than a quarter had any nutrition counselling visit in the same period.
Sep 26, 2026
Semaglutide and tirzepatide went from diabetes treatment to celebrity shortcut to a genuine health story. What happens when one drug becomes a cultural moment.
Apr 20, 2024
Lilly does not expect to file for approval until the first quarter of 2027. Search the drug's name today and you can have a vial by the weekend. The gap between those two facts is where the harm happens.
Aug 20, 2026
A Yale study found semaglutide switches the brain's hunger neurons on rather than off, and that those neurons are required for fat loss to last. Remove them and the mice ate just as little and regained the weight within fifteen days.
Aug 25, 2026
Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are all prescribable in the UAE, but shortages and insurance gaps shape who can actually get them.
Mar 10, 2025
New body composition data compares lean mass loss on tirzepatide and semaglutide. Here is what is measured, and what remains unclear.
Jun 15, 2026
In 1,900 American adults, waist circumference on its own matched a new multi measurement framework against a proper body fat scan. BMI alone missed a substantial number of people who met the body fat criteria for obesity.
Sep 1, 2026
Meta-analyses now put exercise's effect on depression in the same range as antidepressant trials, with real implications for regions like the Gulf.
Apr 14, 2026
Retatrutide just posted phase 3 weight loss data hitting three hormone receptors at once. Here is what is confirmed and what remains unproven.
May 27, 2026
Tirzepatide just earned an approval that has nothing to do with the scale. Here is what SELECT, FLOW and the new sleep apnea data show.
Jan 8, 2025
Semaglutide now has a heart disease approval too. Here is what the STEP and SELECT trial data really says, and what it does not.
Mar 13, 2024
The biggest head-to-head diet trial ever run found near-identical weight loss. The real variable turned out to be the person, not the macro.
Nov 18, 2024
Trial data on stopping semaglutide shows most of the lost weight comes back within a year. Here is what the STEP 1 extension found.
May 15, 2024
A major Cochrane review of nearly 2,000 people found intermittent fasting barely beats ordinary dieting. Here is what the data really supports.
Mar 10, 2026
Berberine lowers cholesterol and blood sugar in small trials, but comparing it to semaglutide misreads both the data and the biology.
Feb 14, 2024
New analyses of the ATTAIN trials presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes found orforglipron cut body weight by up to 14 per cent regardless of whether women were premenopausal, perimenopausal or postmenopausal.
Sep 29, 2026
Three randomised trials put time-restricted eating against ordinary calorie control or against nothing. The eating window on its own did little. Combined with eating less, it did what eating less does. What that means for anyone considering it.
Sep 6, 2026
A pooled analysis of 51 cohort studies spanning up to 32 years of follow-up found higher ultra-processed food intake linked to greater risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, depression and death, with digestive disease risk up 31 per cent.
Sep 27, 2026
More than 500 species of vesper bat turn out to carry two separate sets of antibody heavy chain genes, where every other known mammal has one. The researchers are careful to say this does not fully explain why bats tolerate viruses.
Sep 4, 2026
Chrononutrition research links late eating to worse metabolic outcomes, but the field is younger and messier than headlines suggest.
Sep 25, 2025
Protein-enriched processed foods produced higher satiety hormones and lower calorie intake than normal-protein versions of the same products. It complicates a classification a lot of advice now rests on.
Aug 17, 2026
A meta-analysis of seventy studies put the increased mortality risk from loneliness at 26 per cent and from living alone at 32 per cent. A WHO commission estimates 871,000 deaths a year. What the numbers mean, and what has been shown to help.
Aug 23, 2026
Diaa al-Awady died on 19 April. Egypt banned his content on 3 May. The system spread faster afterwards. What that reveals about religious vocabulary, distrust of doctors and the cost of a health panic is more useful than another round of the argument.
Aug 22, 2026
