Oz told his audience that the product regulates the hormone adiponectin, which could help teach the body to be thin.

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In the maternal samples, they measured testosterone, a hormone, and cotinine, a breakdown product of nicotine that shows a person's level of smoking.

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In 1990 they cloned a breakthrough product: ciliary neurotrophic factor, or CNTF, a nerve growth hormone they later named Axokine.

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