“晨吐激素”或有助于减少酒精摄入

GDF15, thought to contribute to nausea during pregnancy, also acts as a brake on drinking, researchers argue CATHERINE OFFORD F or most people, Oktoberfest means guzzling liters of beer inside a giant tent. But for one research group in Denmark, it’s a chance to study how our bodies know when we’ve had enough. In a preprint posted on bioRxiv this month, researchers combined a small study of people at Germany’s fall beer festival with other data from humans and mice to argue that GDF15, a hor- mone commonly associated with morn- ing sickness, might also limit humans’ alcohol consumption. They hope the findings could point the way to new treatments for alcohol dependence. …