Patients joining the program begin with an in-office consultation and body composition analysis on our SECA Scale (the gold standard for medical body comp analysis)
At baseline, the children had higher concentrations of galactose intermediates, N-acetylserotonin and trimethylamine N-oxide, and lower concentrations of selenium and 3-hydroxybutyrate than the control group
When Yuyang Liu, a graduate student in his lab and first author of the study, compared SLC25A39s structure against others in the SLC family of transporters in the AlphaFold protein structure database, Liu spotted a unique extra loop in the protein
If a child is struggling with their eating patterns, movement or weight, Beswick said she feels the best approach is to tackle the root cause, not apply what she called "a potentially harmful band-aid solution." Baswick noted she believes many struggles with weight stem from a child's poor relationship with food, body and movement