Exercise Pill...Anyone?

Filed in archive News , Studies , Weight Loss on July 31, 2008

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Researchers at Salk Institute may have found a pill that will trick the muscle that its working out, in their study in laboratory mice.

They identified two signaling pathways that are activated in response to exercise and converge to dramatically increase endurance.

In addition to their allure for endurance athletes, drugs that mimic the effects of exercise have therapeutic potential in treating certain muscle diseases, such as wasting and frailty, as well as obesity and a slew of associated metabolic disorders where exercise is known to be beneficial.

Could this be taking the fun out of exercising? But then maybe we all are going to be lazy, time will come we just pop a pill and that's our exercise.

Read more from Salk Institute.