Can Marijuana Really Reduce Pot Bellies And Obesity?
“Dude, where’s my fat?”
Attention daily marijuana users, according to a recently published study, you may be more likely to have a lower body mass index (BMI) or less likely to be obese or overweight than non-users. Got that? Hello? Are you there? Can you hear me?
But, hold on, Mr. Hand, you may ask. Doesn’t smoking weed, ganja, cannabis, reefer, Mary Jane, or whatever you call give you the munchies and make you go to White Castle? Many people who have tried marijuana (and inhaled while doing so) will note this connection. Indeed, a study conducted by researchers from Yale published in the journal Nature consisted of giving mice cannabis (dude, stoned mice) and found that this suppressed their hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons. Huh? The POMC neurons are a group of nerve cells in the brain that seem to tell you that you are full or at least not...
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