Chinese researchers have said that mice -like beads resemble the boubet tea that helped mice to lose weight when following a diet rich in fat and that these grains may one day become an option to lose weight without drugs.
Microscopic beads are made of green tea and vitamin E, then wrapped with marine herbs derived. Once eaten, the cover expands and the green tea molecules and vitamin E are associated with the partially digested fat in the intestine.
The mice, which followed a high -fat diet, lost 17% of their total body weight when she took microscopic beads for a month, but the mice, which were fed on a high -fat diet without microscopic beads, did not lose weight.
The researchers also found that mice that were fed on microscopic beads suffered from liver damage to a lesser degree than mice that were fed on the high -fat diet without grains.
The mice that took microscopic beads resulted in the amount of fat in their stools, equivalent to the fat that was produced by another group of mice running on a high -fat diet that received the drug orgelist to lose weight, but without the side effects on the stomach that the Orlestat group suffered, which also works to remove the partially digested fat in the intestine.
Orlistat without a prescription is sold as “Ally” from Glaxo Smith Klein and with a prescription name “Zenical” from Roche Company.
The researchers will present their results at the digital meeting of the American Chemical Society in the fall of 2025.
Meanwhile, they started testing microscopic beads on humans.
Researchers say the beads are almost no flavor and can be easily combined into the diet.
“We want to develop something commensurate with the way people usually eat and live,” said the leader of the study, Yi Woo, a high school student at Sichuan University.