Tag: Anders M. Naar

  • Health

    With fasting, enzyme turns off body’s production of fats, cholesterol

    Fasting helps cause an enzyme with several important roles in energy metabolism to turn off the body’s generation of fats and cholesterol, Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found.  The findings could lead to new approaches to treating elevated cholesterol and lipid levels. The researchers’ report, published today in Genes & Development, describes how…

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