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Leptin: How Diabetes and Obesity Are Linked

One of the more popular articles on my Web site is a transcript of a lecture about the importance of insulin by Dr. Ron Rosedale, one of world's foremost experts on leptin, a very powerful and influential hormone that has totally changed the way science looks at fat, nutrition and metabolism. Leptin's appetite-controlling role leads to obesity, which significantly raises the risk of diabetes. Researchers at the University of Michigan and Harvard University found new evidence in mice...