The Elusive Exercise Pill? Two Studies Show Promise

Tuesday, 23 July 2013 | by Pat's Picks

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a pill you could take instead of schlepping to the gym? The New York Times says the idea of exercise in pill form is the subject of two recent studies. The most encouraging of the two tracked the progress of obese mice, who, when injected with certain compound lost weight (even on a high-fat diet) and started to use more oxygen, even though they appeared “more physically lazy and inactive than they had been before the injections.” In other words, the mice were getting a workout without doing anything.

SOURCE: New York Times