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28,29 Alternative treatments such as spa, massage, and acupuncture are also beneficial but lack enough evidence to support efficacy

A prominent example of a specific mutation associated with obesity was the discovery that a four base-pair deletion in the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) leads to obesity by inhibiting the leptin-melanocortin pathway [11]

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A larger follow-up RCT (n=72 older adults) confirmed these findings, additionally demonstrating improvements in gait speed (+0.14 m/s), grip strength, 6-minute walk distance, waist circumference reduction, and systolic blood pressure reduction (Kumar et al., J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2023) [21]