New 'Exercise Pill' Could Induce Fitness Benefits Without Exercise

Science Alert ^ | 22 March 2024 | CARLY CASSELLA

[Mariner]

This is a harbinger of the end of the world.

[Red Badger]

This is a harbinger of the end of Planet Fitness...............

[budj]

And you can wash it down with this!

[EEGator]

This article does not receive a Go Gators!…

[Red Badger]

“Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.”.......

[Red Badger]

Better living through chemistry..............

[desertsolitaire]

Amen.

[NWFree]

Never mind it probably gives you cancer you’ll look great at the funeral

[desertsolitaire]

Is that like the Family Guy episode where Peter has Stewie injected with anabolic steroids and he becomes ripped with loads of muscle?

[Leaning Right]

> When administered to mice daily, the drug, called SLU-PP-332, seems to improve muscle function, fitness, and endurance… <

Oh, great. With all our other problems now we’re going to have to deal with Rambo mice.

(In all seriousness, this is promising news.)

[PROCON]

[EEGator]

This is a perfect microcosm of American society.

Pill popping, lazy, vain, fatties…

[UnwashedPeasant]

"SLU-PP-332"

Great drug name. I want to get Slupped.

[Red Badger]

[toddausauras]

Your feet may fall off but you’ll be skinny. People are so stupid and lazy

[Red Badger]

No more schlepping, just schlupping................

[z3n]

“...but it does seem to trigger a molecular pathway that conveys many benefits of exercise to the heart, brain, and kidneys. “

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Better than nothing? Sure.
One of the reasons sedentary people get health problems is that their metabolism is constantly catabolic. The body has very little need to metabolize cholesterol, for example, because it doesn’t need it to generate as many endocrine substances, and then you end up with the bad effects of cholesterol, whereas active people’s bodies use it up.

However, I tend to wonder if it will act more like a drug and lose it’s potency, and in fact create a kind of rebound effect when one goes off of it, because they didn’t get any of the actual exercise benefits that exercise offers, such as building up muscle strength, bone density, or heart and lung endurance. Once you are off the stuff, you are just as frail as you were when you didn’t exercise but your metabolism baseline is even worse than when you started.

[EEGator]

“I’m sooo vascular…”

[scouter]

I predict a new manifestation of the Law of Unintended Consequences.