'Oxytocin shows promise as a weight-loss medication, with encouraging results in animal models and small human studies. Now, new imaging results show that the hormone inhibits food-related reward circuitry in the brain, tackling the hedonic, nonnutritive eating that can contribute to overweight and obesity in a calorie-rich environment.'
Tags: obesity , weight-loss , cardiology , Family Medicine , Endocrinology , hormone , Internal Medicine , oxytocin , ENDO2019 , MDedge , lipid disorders , nonnutritive eating
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