The hormone oxytocin in a nasal spray form may be used to treat obesity. The spray reduced caloric intake in healthy men particularly consumption of fatty foods after a single dose a new study says. Oxytocin nasal spray reportedly lowered the number of calories men consumed at a subsequent breakfast whether they were normal weight or overweight. Our results are really exciting said lead investigator Elizabeth Lawson of Harvard Medical School Boston. Further study is needed but I think oxytocin is a promising treatment for obesity and its metabolic complications Lawson added. (Read: Can hunger-blocking hormone help treat obesity?) In
