A natural ingredient in milk may help you reduce extra calorie.
A recent research has suggested that, nicotinamide riboside, a natural ingredient found in milk has potential to protect mice against obesity.
The researchers have found it to be a new kind of vitamin.
"This is present in what we've all been eating since day one," said Johan Auwerx of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
The researchers identified the milk ingredient during a research to find alternative ways to boost the well-known gene SIRT1, which is known to possess benefits for both metabolism and longevity.
One of the effective ways for this could be targeting SIRTI directly; same as the red wine ingredient resveratrol tends to do, at least at some doses.
However, team Auwerx has suspected that there might be a simpler way to go about it, by stimulating the levels of one of SIRT1's molecular sidekicks, the cofactor NAD+.
This milk ingredient does shows its effects in a more convincing way as it is not only is it a natural product, but it also gets trapped within the cells, where it can do much benefit.
Mice that are known to take high doses of nicotinamide riboside along with their high-fat diets are likely to burn more fat and are protected from obesity. They also helps them to become good runners due to muscles having greater endurance.
The benefits that have been observed in mice is not easy obtain by drinking milk only, says Auwerx.
It may be possible that the compound may serve as a new type of metabolism-stimulating supplement. Tests that have been carried out in people need to help sort out those details.
In addition to that, he stated, this milk ingredient ultimately provides the same benefits attributed to resveratrol, but in a different way. It is also possible that many small effects of ingredients present in our meals could add up to slimmer waistlines and even longevity too.
The details of the finding were reported in the June Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication.
-With inputs from ANI
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