{"id":6237,"date":"2008-01-08T14:05:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T14:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/new-obesity-drug.html"},"modified":"2008-01-08T14:05:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T14:05:03","slug":"new-obesity-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/new-obesity-drug.html","title":{"rendered":"New Obesity Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here I am having lunch in front of my laptop which is why I probably decided to click on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/gwt\/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wired.com%2F%7Er%2Fwired%2Ftopheadlines%2F%7E3%2F213316589%2Freverse_cannabis\">story <\/a>about a new obesity drug. What is fascinating about the approach of this drug is that it uses the marijuana effect in reverse meaning it is the anti-munchy drug.<\/p>\n<p>In other words it targets the area of the brain which marijuana stimulates to make you hungry but tries to cause the exact opposite reaction.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, called taranabant, is now in the final stage of the three-phase FDA-approval process. <\/p>\n<p>Normally topics relating to drugs aren&#8217;t part of my blog content but then again I am not sure why it is on Wired magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/gwt\/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wired.com%2F%7Er%2Fwired%2Ftopheadlines%2F%7E3%2F213316589%2Freverse_cannabis\">website <\/a>which is where I found it in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here I am having lunch in front of my laptop which is why I probably decided to click on this story about a new obesity drug. What is fascinating about the approach of this drug is that it uses the marijuana effect in reverse meaning it is the anti-munchy drug. In other words it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}