[epmaybe]

I'm in medical school right now, we talked about metabolic disorders and the role of the hypothalamic nuclei in obesity. Wouldn't be that hard for a medical student who remembers what microglia are to extrapolate from there. I also agree that laymen can indeed read these kinds of articles, if comfortable with the content. If not, there's plenty of secondary sources commenting on these new findings.

[AstralStorm]

The one prospective test to be run in humans (interventional study) is if we have some potent AGE formation inhibitor and what that would do to prevent obesity. People working on SENS might be the ones to ask (esp. GlycoSENS).

Expensive to run of course.