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A Pill for Exercise?

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

The hype on this new study seems way overstated. From the New York Times: For all who have wondered if they could enjoy the benefits of exercise without the pain of exertion, the answer may one day be yes ? just take a pill that tricks the muscles into thinking they have been working out furiously.Researchers at the Salk Institute in San Diego reported that they had found two drugs that did wonders for the athletic endurance of couch potato mice. One drug, known as Aicar, increased the mice?s endurance on a treadmill by 44 percent after just four weeks of treatment.* * * Four years ago he found that PPAR-delta played a different role in muscle. Muscle fibers exist in two main forms. Type 1 fibers have copious numbers of mitochondria, which generate the cell?s energy and are therefore resistant to fatigue...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on August 06, 2008 (boomark / email).