Immune system plays major role in obesity

New research involving a team of Irish, American and Canadian researchers has revealed that the immune system could be responsible for as much as 40 per cent of our body’s ability to regulate weight. Dr Lydia Lynch, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, and the lead author on the study, explained that the team discovered that a very common immune cell, called the invariant natural killer T cell (iNKT cell) — often described as the “Swiss army knife of the immune system because it does so many jobs” — plays a key role…