Ingesting This Electric Capsule May Help Cure an Eating Disorder
We’re about to string together a bunch of strange sentences together, so take a deep breath and start reading slowly.
Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have been working on something exceptionally weird and wonderful lately. They’ve been interested in finding a way to fix gastrointestinal issues in people, specifically by regulating the hormones that are released in the gut. So thanks to some inspiration from the way lizard skin functions, they designed an artificial capsule that you’re supposed to ingest— which then begins to use electronic stimulation in the stomach to safely modulate gastrointestinal hormone levels to control hunger.
And according to some new tests in pigs, the capsule works.