I just saw some very exciting news on Fox News. Dr Garner talked about a new hormone called Irisin that mimics the effects on the body of exercise. No, it doesnt build muscles. But all the other good things that happen after exercise occur when taking this hormone. Fat burning ” the bad white type ” increases just like after exercising. Growth hormone is increased. Blood glucose levels are lowered. All KINDS of good implications in fighting obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and a whole host of health problems.

Researchers say this newly discovered hormone is found in very high levels in the body during and after exercise. t might help plan some of th health benefits of exse an point the way to preventing obesity an diabetes. he find ws described online Wednesday n Nature (Scientific American s part of Nature ublihing Group).

s has myad benefits for the body and brain, but many f the triggers for these improvements hve so fr been somewhat of a mystery.

The effects of exercise on the hormones production seem to be long-lived. Even after 12 hours of rest, mice that had been on a three-week jogging regimen had 65 percent more irisin in their blood than unexercised mice. But could this hormone, the scientists wondered, mimic some of the effects of exercise”without subjects having to hit the treadmill? To find out, they injected a batch of obese, pre-diabetic mice that had been fed a high-fat diet with just about as much of an irisin boost as they would get from a workout.

It is likely that irisin is responsible for at least some of the beneficial effects of exercise on the browning of adipose tissues and increase in energy expenditure, Speigelman and his colleagues noted in their paper. This find might help explain some of the afterburn of extra calories after vigorous activity. The researchers are continuing to explore irisins possible health benefits, including potentially even being used in the treatment of Parkinsons disease because the process appears to have protective effects on mitochondrial metabolism as well. Irisin has been licensed exclusively to Ember Therapeutics, based in Boston, for drug development.

Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered a hormone created in the body which could have very important implications on human health. The protein, which they are calling irisin is being described as a highly promising candidate for the development of a novel treatment for diabetes, obesity, and perhaps neurological diseases such as Parkinsons.

Scientists believe that the protein could yield “exercise in pill form,” offering new treatments for diabetes and obesity in people unable to exercise. Irisin does not, however, build muscle or strengthen bones. And the messages irisin carries are not trivial”they seem to effect positive changes in the body. An increase in irisin helps turn white fat into the more beneficial and metabolically active brown fat, which burns more calories.