Python Blood Could Be Used to Create Safer Weight-Loss Drugs

Python blood could be used to create safer weight-loss drugs

Scientists have discovered a compound in python blood that reduces appetite and could lead to safer, more effective weight-loss drugs.

Research Shows Python Blood Metabolite May Shape Future Weight Loss Treatments

Scientists have identified a compound in python blood that could lead to new weight loss therapies—possibly without the side effects seen in GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic. The study appeared in Nature Metabolism. Extreme Python Metabolism and Feast-or-Famine Adaptation Pythons exhibit an extreme metabolism, surviving months without food before consuming large prey. After feeding, their metabolic rate can increase up to 40 times, while organs like the…

Python blood suppresses appetite without the side effects of drugs like Ozempic

Every time a Burmese python swallows a meal, something remarkable happens inside its body. Its heart expands by a quarter. Its metabolism accelerates by a factor of thousands. Organs that had shrunk during months of fasting begin to swell back to size. Then, when digestion is complete, the snake returns to a state of near-suspended animation, maintaining its muscle mass and cardiovascular health until the next meal, which might be a year away. R…

Python Blood Has The Potential To Create Weight-Loss Medications Similar To Ozempic

Metabolites from python blood have the potential to lead to the creation of weight-loss medications similar to Ozempic, according to new research. At first, scientists at Stanford University, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Colorado Boulder collaborated to determine which chemical signals allow Burmese pythons to go months without eating. They ended up […]

Unexpected discovery in Python blood may aid weight loss

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