According to the report of the World Health Organization, if someone's BMI score is 25 then he is overweight. If the BMI score is more than 30 then the person is obese. About 2.6 billion or 38 percent of the world's population is facing obesity. Not only this, according to a figure, by 2035, 50 percent of the world's population will be under the influence of obesity. Amidst all this, there is good news for those people who are either obese or are moving rapidly towards obesity. America's Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a drug that produces vibrations that will send a message to the brain that your stomach is full. This means that you will have less desire to eat.
Medicine claims to be effective
Regarding the medication that causes tremors, it has been said that it will be less effective than gastric bypass. But it will have minimal side effects as compared to those medicines which claim to reduce obesity. Now let us tell you how this medicine will work inside the body. Researchers say that its shape will be like a multivitamin pill. It will have a battery operating on silver oxide. When you swallow that pill, it will reach your intestine. There the upper layer of the pill will dissolve due to gastric acid. With the help of wireless you will feel the vibration. So far it has been tested on animals and the results have been excellent.
Successful trial on animals
Researchers say that this pill was given to some animals before eating their fodder and to some it was not given. Animals that were given this medicine along with fodder ate less food. Whereas animals that were not given fodder ate more food. Because of this pill, the hormone levels in the animals were high and because of that they were feeling full. Has it been tried on humans? The question is what causes obesity?
Awaiting trial on humans
This pill has not been tried on humans yet. According to scientists, permission for clinical trials may be granted soon. In this regard, Professor Giovanni Traverso at MIT and Shriya Srinivasan, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard University, told that they had studied the stretching of stomach muscles through vibration. Research has shown that vibration can cause the stomach muscles to stretch, leading to the conclusion that the deceptive feeling of being full can be sent to the brain. In simple words, the brain will feel that the stomach is full. This means that even after eating less, it will feel as if you do not feel like eating.
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