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A gastrointestinal hormone that apparently participates in controlling smooth muscle contractions in the stomach and small intestine.

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  • Fat-free milk as a therapeutic approach for constipation and the effect on serum motilin and ghrelin levels
  • Researchers also found that serum motilin and des-acylated ghrelin hormone levels were increased by a statistically significant amount after fat-free milk supplementation.
  • The company is also utilizing its proprietary chemistry technology to develop macrolides without antibacterial activity for non-antibiotic uses in motilin receptor...
  • Full-fat milk may be associated with constipation but new research suggests that drinking fat-free milk could be a way of solving irregularity problems. constipation and levels...
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