Posted on 04/29/2007 12:47:28 PM PDT by Zakeet
SCIENTISTS have created an exercise pill that tricks cells into thinking they are undergoing serious exertion and so helps the body burn extra fat. The drug hints at radical new potential treatments for obesity whereby fat people would be able to use drugs to slim down rather than dieting or exercising.
The drug, a synthetic form of fat, has only been tested on animals. It appears to work by flicking a master switch within cells that regulates the laying down or burning of fat.
Ronald Evans, the researcher who created the drug, told the Experimental Biology conference in Washington DC over the weekend that such drugs could lead to new treatments for human metabolic syndrome.
Sometimes called syndromeX, this consists of obesity and its consequences, such as high blood pressure, elevated levels of fat in the blood, heart disease, diabetes and resistance to insulin.
Dr Evans, of the Salk Institute, in San Diego, California, found the drug activated the same fat-burning process that occurs during exercise, increasing the amount of calories burnt with no apparent effort. This made the mice resistant to weight gain even on a high-fat diet.
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Cool! Where do I sign up?
Maybe we could get virtual Viagra to trick us into thinking we.............
“..an exercise pill that tricks cells into thinking they are undergoing serious exertion..”
Take one before every meal and every beer. Awesome.
When will it be available for human consumption? Giving it to democRATS is unfair.
Well heck. Maybe I will just give up exercising and dieting and wait for a magic pill.
Hey-I gave that s**t up long ago! I’m buying all the stock in this company—once it comes out-—dash I can possibly afford.
Sounds good. Especially the no effort part.
Cool. Give me the fat pill and give my husband the virtual Viagra.
An old adage says: “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” You might keep that in mind.
If it works, look out Bill Gates!!
Of course if we didn’t eat like hogs and didn’t sit on the couch allday we would be the same size we were 30 years ago and this wouldn’t be that widespread of an issue.
“...if we didn’t eat like hogs and didn’t sit on the couch allday...”
You say that like it IS a bad thing...
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