AOD-9604

It’s tempting to boil metabolism and losing weight down to just diet and exercise, but it is a complex process. Food serves as the body’s raw materials, but genes, sleep, stress, and toxin exposure all play a role in metabolism. Two additional functions are anabolism, which involves the building and storage of essential molecules for the body and requires energy, and catabolism, which breaks these essential molecules down while releasing energy.

AOD-9604, or Advanced Obesity Drug 9604, has been found to regulate the body’s metabolism, while also stimulating the natural fat-burning process. In doing so, the peptide triggers release of fat from obese fat cells and decreases the growth of new fat that surrounds the fat cells, which helps the body gain more significant weight loss. It’s derived from the C(arbon)-terminus of human growth hormone. It also doesn’t increase hunger, while helping with cartilage repair. Lastly, AOD is able to improve the rate of anabolism while reducing the effects of catabolism, fancy words for "stopping the foods we eat from being converted into body fat."