Peter Attia· MD
and as it is it occurred to us that the reason it's generating the heat is you're uncoupling all the organs in the body and what if we just picked one organ i.e the liver where the fat is accumulating this is where the organ that's driving lipidemia hyperlipidemia and diabetes and if we could just melt the fat away within a liver specific manner maybe we can have that beneficial effect without the toxicity and so in a series of studies we were able to show proof of concept that by simply uncoupling the liver you could avoid hyperthermia and all the toxicities that have typically been associated with the parent compound dnp and increase the therapeutic window every drug has a therapeutic window even aspirin and tylenol by a hundred fold based on this thinking i think it can be done very safely and be a treatment for very important metabolic diseases like nafl and nash