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What can pythons’ unusual feast-and-famine lifestyle teach us about weight loss?
Stanford Medicine researcher Jonathan Long, PhD, explains how studying the dramatic metabolic changes pythons experience after eating could reveal new pathways for understanding appetite, metabolism and weight loss.
Read more: https://stan.md/4wq5RSj
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What can pythons’ unusual feast-and-famine lifestyle teach us about weight loss?
Stanford Medicine researcher Jonathan Long, PhD, explains how studying the dramatic metabolic changes pythons experience after eating could reveal new pathways for understanding appetite, metabolism and weight loss.
Read more: https://stan.md/4wq5RSj
Stanford Medicine advances human health through world-class biomedical research, education and patient care. Bringing together the resources of Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford Medicine is committed to training future leaders in biomedicine and translating the latest discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.
The Stanford Medicine YouTube channel is a curated collection of contributions from our School of Medicine departments, divisions, students, and the community. Our diverse content includes coverage of events, presentations, lectures, and associated stories about the people of Stanford Medicine.
