Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE3B6xxvUxr/ Wish you could eat those burgers and fries without breaking your bathroom scale?  Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder may be able to make your dream come true.  Their pre-clinical study exposed mice to a typical high fat, high sugar western diet.   Those animals receiving weekly injections of heat-killed Mycobacterium vaccae, a bacterium that fights inflammation and is found in cow’s milk, avoided weight gains, fat accumulations, and brain tissue inflammation. A vaccine against weight gain is far off as this principle is as yet untested in human subjects.  On the other hand, this study suggests the possibility that you could be immunized against your guilty dietary pleasures…..someday soon. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915912400758X #westerndiet #obesity #sugar #fat #vaccine #mycobacteriumvaccae