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The weight-loss market is, pun perhaps intended, huge.
Recent years have seen the advancement of dieting drugs, but many of these include painful injections and a whole slew of side effects.
An Israeli startup, meanwhile, enables people interested in losing a moderate amount of weight to take a pill that leaves them feeling full without drugs.
“The idea was to develop a product that can be swallowed through the mouth and which opens up in the stomach to apply pressure on the stomach wall and so produce a feeling of satiety,” Epitomee (opens in a new tab) CEO Dr. Dan Hashimshony tells ISRAEL21c.
“That’s something that’s easy to say, but making it happen is very challenging.”
Epitomee is a medical company that is developing and commercializing ingestible therapeutic devices. Company Co-founder and Chairman of the Board Shimon Eckhouse is a Technion alumnus.