Science Daily reports on a new invention that helped rats lose 40 percent of their body weight during lab tests, in only 12 days. The engineers of this small implantable device from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say that this device could be an answer to the “rising pandemic” of obesity. So what exactly does this implantable, non-battery operated device do that aids in weight loss?
The one centimeter length implant is about the size of one third of a United States’s penny, and generates a slight, gentle electric pulse from the stomach’s natural churning motions in order to develop them to the vagus nerve. The Vagus nerves is that which connects a person’s brain with their stomach; the nerves that is synonymous is hunger pangs.
A professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Xudong Wang, has remarked on the creation and studies of what is believed to be a new and promising weapon for weight loss.
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