They create a patch that loses weight without exercising

• May 5, 2024

If you are one of those who do not have time to exercise and eat healthily, then this new patch is an option for you.

It is a skin patch capable of reducing body fat by 30% over four weeks.

The creation made by experts from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, assure that the idea of ​​the patch is to convert the blaine fat (the one that is harmful) into brown fat (the one that burns easier).

The patch contains hundreds of microneedles loaded with a weight-loss drug (thyroid hormone T3 triiodothyronine).

So far they have been tested with mice, but hope to make them in humans and to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).