Real Diet Pill? New 'Exercise Pill' Tells Cells To Burn Fat; Works in Mice (Science D

FatNewsBot · 04-29-2007, 10:40 PM

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Real Diet Pill? New 'Exercise Pill' Tells Cells To Burn Fat; Works in Mice (Science Daily)

A new pill makes normal mice resistant to weight gain even when they are fed a high-fat diet. The synthetic drug is designed to mimic fat, and allows scientists to chemically switch on PPAR-d, the master regulator that controls the ability of cells to burn fat. Even when the mice are not active, turning on the chemical switch activates the same fat-burning process that occurs during exercise. The ...

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DocSanae · 04-29-2007, 10:54 PM

In mice...that is such a big leap from there to us humans, as research always is. It's going to take years from them to us, if ever. Better to control our lives ourselves than wait for that *miracle* drug.

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