The Khetarpal lab at UVA is seeking a research associate (postdoc)! Please see the posting and reach out with any questions!

Essential reading for all those interested in body weight regulation. Spoiler alert: we know surprisingly little about what exactly is being regulated and how. https://t.co/8PpBAwNxKO

Really nice essay. Author puts his finger on something real here. (gift link)

B6 mice fed an ad lib 90% fat ketogenic diet overeat and develop obesity, hepatic steatosis, hyperlipidemia, and islet ER stress. https://t.co/GMn9lLCL1m

MELISSA JEFFERSON-WOODEN DOES THE DOUBLE! She runs the fastest time in the WORLD this year to complete the 100m/200m sweep. #WorldAthleticsChamps

Join us tomorrow on Microsoft Teams for #PittEndo's Endocrine University Wide Conference featuring Max Peterson, MD, PhD from Washington University School of Medicine. For more information, or to request the Teams link, please email EDMADMIN@pitt.edu.

HISTORY IN THE MAKING 😱 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone wins her FIRST WORLD TITLE over 400m in ANOTHER AMERICAN RECORD of 47.78. No woman has broken 48 seconds in the event in 40 years, and now two do it in one race as McLaughlin-Levrone comes within 0.18 seconds of the world

Among many highlights today #easd25 @EASDnews The @novonordiskfond Prize lecture

I remember watching @LodhiLab @WashUMedEndo present this stunning work on peroxisomal thermogenesis at WashU and thinking "That's a Nature paper!" Now it is: https://t.co/c2DIQ5xlkj And I like these "Briefings" that let the authors discuss their findings: https://t.co/FYAyDtGlK4

Congratulations to Professor Gerald I. Shulman, recipient of the 2025 Diabetes Prize for Excellence. Over a long career, Professor Shulman has transformed our understanding of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes - revealing how fat stored in muscle and liver cells disrupts

🚨BIG NEWS: $50M Investment to End America's Health Crisis!🚨 🔬I'm Andrew Koutnik, PhD in Nutrition, Metabolism & Diabetes—and a patient living with an irreversible chronic metabolic disease. Thrilled to advise the NEW Coalition for Metabolic Health, LAUNCHED to REVERSE our

"Centaur users strategically divide tasks between themselves and the AI...in contrast, cyborg users intertwine their work with AI across all stages of a task...Users must shift between them on the basis of the task and the risks" https://t.co/MTtnf6ZW0y

I've been trying to sort out how 2 high quality epidemiology studies applied the Lancet Commission clinical #obesity definition and concluded with vastly different prevalences: 9.7% vs. 39.1% Shen et al examined NHANES 2017-2020 👉 https://t.co/SvdlToxQqs - 9.7% clinical

🚨❗ Results of the FIRST EVER trial comparing ultra-processed food (UPF) and minimally-processed food (MPF) diets following healthy dietary guidelines on health (and the longest trial of UPF to date) published today in Nature Medicine What did we find? A Thread… 🧵 1/

There's so much noise about nutrition in the media recently but none of it seriously confronts the decades of underfunding of nutrition research that inhibits us from knowing as much as we should know. The scandal isn't artificial food colours in ice cream- it's that we don't

"Since fasting is an inherently catabolic state, a theoretical mechanism of benefit of fasting is through the catabolic dissolution of pathological biomass." Nice and comprehensive review of fasting physiology by Pouneh Fazeli and Matt Steinhauser (Pitt). https://t.co/1ZwWf0E1u4

Congratulations to Drs. Anne C. Goldberg, Cynthia J. Herrick, Marina Litvin, Max C. Petersen, Clay F. Semenkovich, Kelley J. Williams, and department colleagues on ranking in the top 20% for ambulatory patient experience!

What an #ADA2025! Six papers made the @NEJM, but the most interesting drug trial by far wasn’t one of them: the bimagrumab/semaglutide BELIEVE Ph2 study. Full of surprises, both good and bad. Transient and modest lean mass gains, but eye-popping fat loss. Many new questions

2025 Banting Medal to Steven Kahn. The pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes in one slide. Some version of this slide should be in every medical school T2D curriculum. #ADA2025

Provocative lecture by Belinda Lennerz #ADA2025 highlighting the need for more rigorous research into very-low-carbohydrate diets in type 1 diabetes. We are working on this as well! https://t.co/zsWFCkOhEu