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Research aims to create the 'exercise pill'

07/19/2013

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Substance tested in rats can benefit from intense physical activity such as weight loss and cholesterol, but no effort
  
A recently published study investigating the chance in the future, we can take pills to replace exercise for its health benefits.

This week, the journal "Nature Medicine" published a study of the Scripps Research Institute in Florida, which tells about a substance that increased activation of a protein called REV-ERB in obese mice. The protein is known to partially control the clock of the animals. Rodents who had injected compound lost weight, even with a diet rich in fat, and improve your cholesterol levels.

Unexpectedly, the treated mice also started to use more oxygen during the day and spent 5% more power than mice that did not receive the substance, although not work out more than the other rats. In most cases, the rats were tested lazy and physically inactive they had been before the injections. The drug, it seemed, gave the effect of a workout, but without the effort.

The drug "certainly seems to act as an imitation of exercise," said co-author Thomas Burris, now the chairman of the department of pharmacological and physiological science at St. Louis University School of Medicine, the "New York Times".

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