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Proteomics Tell Us Obesity Treatment Is More Than Weight Loss

January 4, 2025 — The ongoing debate about the clinical definition of obesity is soon to get more intense. But already, it tells us pretty clearly that obesity is defined by more than excess weight. New research in Nature Medicine comes at this subject from an entirely different direction. Using proteomics, Lasse Maretty and colleagues find that the effects […]

Bronchial Epithelium with Inflammation

A Spotlight on Inflammation, Obesity, and COVID-19

June 3, 2020 — Most people think of obesity as an issue of body weight. But in fact, weight is merely an artifact. It’s a side effect of what’s really going on in the physiology of obesity. In fact, an excess of adipose tissue that harms health is what defines obesity. In turn, one of the key pathways for […]