Frontiers | Assessing the efficacy of the natural disaccharide trehalose in ameliorating diet-induced obesity and metabolic dysfunction Trehalose is a naturally occurring disaccharide with versatile commercial applications and health benefits, including promise as a therapeutic for obesity an...

Happy to announce new work by Postdoc Fellow Yu-Sheng Yeh & @razanilab.bsky.social showing natural sugar #trehalose (known #autophagy #TFEB inducer) improves #obesity #metabolism. Caveat: it is ineffective by oral route & KO of gut enzyme #trehalase doesn't help.

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