Activation of POMC/CART neurons by leptin contributes to reduced food intake and increased energy expenditure
"This makes psychiatrists like me interested in what else activation of these receptors can do, and one of the main areas of interest is motivation." Mansur called motivation a "key clinical problem in depression, which is not only feeling low and sad, its as much about losing motivation and interest in things." Existing treatments for depression do not address that combination, he said
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serious side effects It is not known how often these side effects occur
Notably, despite the dramatic difference in d 3 -TMAO production from oral d 3 -l-carnitine in omnivores versus vegans/vegetarians, the difference observed in the first step of that gut microbiotamediated transformation, conversion of d 3 -l-carnitine to d 3 -BB, was not significant, and if anything showed a trend toward a lower conversion rate in the omnivores ( P = 0.051
