Scientists Discover Non-toxic Injections Can Add or Remove Body Fat

According to Health News Digest,Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. announced Saturday, June 29, 2007 that researches there have discovered a non-toxic chemical injection that can effectively add or remove body fat in laboratory animals.

This discovery could eliminate the need for cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. Stephen Baker, M.D., D.D.S., Associate Professor of plastic surgery at Georgetown University Hospital expressed that that the ability to add fat and use it as graft in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery would prove very useful for facial reconstruction and rejuvenation, breast surgery, and buttock and lip enhancement.

Reconstructive surgery is performed to correct abnormalities caused by disease, accidents, or birth defects. The goal is to improve functioning or to create a more normal appearance. Over one million reconstructive surgeries are performed each year in the United States. (Kernan Hospital)

Not only does this injection have the ability to add fat by injecting NPY, a neurotransmitter, into a selected area; but when a Y2R blocker is injected into abdominal fat they found that it prevented both obesity and metabolic syndrome.

"This is the first well-described mechanism found that can effectively eliminate fat without using surgery," said the study's senior author, Zofia Zukowska, M.D., Ph.D., the chair of the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at Georgetown. "We couldn't believe such fat remodeling was possible," (Health News Digest)

Eliminating body fat via a non surgical method provides new hope for those with metabolic syndrome and obesity.