Sugar is Not Your Friend

Introduction and Objective: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) have become the main tobacco product used by youth. Although the effects of conventional cigarette use have been studied, the metabolic effects of e-cigs have yet to be explored. In mice on a high-fat diet (HFD), we have shown that e-cig treatment produces cardiac dysfunction in a lipolysis-dependent manner. […]

Introduction and Objective: Obesity and type 2 diabetes are strongly associated with accelerated cognitive decline. We tested whether chronic high-fat diet (HFD) feeding with sucrose intake impairs cognition in mice and whether TLC-1180, a novel mitochondrial protonophore, improves metabolic and neural deficits.Methods: Male C57BL/6J mice were fed regular chow (RC) or HFD with 1% sucrose […]