date:Mar 26, 2013
t at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. There was no need to isolate or purify the peptide it was fully active after the plant was eaten.
After the tomatoes were eaten, the peptide surprisingly was found to be active in the small intestine but not in the blood, suggesting that targeting the small intestine may be a new strategy to prevent diet-induced atherosclerosis, the plaque-based disease of the arteries that can lead to heart attacks and strokes.
Specifically for the study, the