Outrunning obesity with Lac-Phe?

Lund, Jens; Clemmensen, Christoffer; Schwartz, Thue W · Cell Metab · 2022

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Abstract

Lactate released from skeletal muscle during high-intensity exercise gives rise to a surge in circulating lactate-derived pseudo-dipeptide metabolites including N-lactoyl-phenylalanine (Lac-Phe). In a recent Nature paper, Li et al. use genetic and pharmacological evidence to now propose Lac-Phe to be an "exercise hormone" that suppresses appetite and obesity.

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