Exercise Pills Will Finally Make You Attractive to the Opposite Sex, I'm Sure

**Broken5hift** · 07-31-2008, 09:47 PM

Science: Exercise Pills Will Finally Make You Attractive to the Opposite Sex, I'm Sure

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Good news, chubbies! Science has got your back. Researchers at the Salk Institute have found two drugs that trick the muscles in mice into thinking they've been working out like crazy, even when said mice have been playing World of Warcraft and eating Funyuns for 8 straight hours.

One drug, known as Aicar, increased the mice’s endurance on a treadmill by 44 percent after just four weeks of treatment.

A second drug, GW1516, supercharged the mice to a 75 percent increase in endurance, but had to be combined with exercise to have any effect.

“It’s a little bit like a free lunch without the calories,” said Dr. Ronald M. Evans, leader of the Salk group.

The results, Dr. Evans said, seem reasonably likely to apply to people, who control muscle tone with the same underlying genes as do mice. And if the drugs work and prove to be safe, they could be useful in a wide range of settings.

Yeah, settings such as your couch, your desk chair and your bed, as those are the only places you'll be sitting when you're taking a pill that tricks your body into thinking you're some sort of Olympian.

Of course, the initial uses are going to be for people with diseases such as diabetes that are improved with exercise, but you know the major pharmaceutical companies are licking their chops and looking at the insanely-large couch potato demographic. The future is now! [NY Times]

**warman** · 08-01-2008, 07:25 AM

I don't believe it.

It's going to cause some sort of medical problems. No such thing as a free ride.

**psi chick** · 08-01-2008, 07:54 AM

most people (read women) won't care. just look at that perscription diet pill that went OTC (forget the name). people were lining up for it, and one of the major, and common, side effects is that you shit yourself. yea, there's something i want to run out and buy.

**Vertabreaker** · 08-01-2008, 07:56 AM

"It's called the brown bomber."
"Why's it called that?"
"Because after you smoke it, you get so stoned you shit your pants"
".....Yeah....I don't wanna do that"

But seriously, all these "Get attractive or thinner" quick things I want to smack people and ask them, don't you think if it really worked everyone would be using them?

08-01-2008, 07:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
warman SOT Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: MD Posts: 6,408 gXboxLive Leaderboard: 40^th	I don't believe it. It's going to cause some sort of medical problems. No such thing as a free ride. __________________

08-01-2008, 07:56 AM	#4 (permalink)
Vertabreaker SOT N3rd Mod +1 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The phone booth across the street Posts: 10,362 gXboxLive Leaderboard: 59^th	"It's called the brown bomber." "Why's it called that?" "Because after you smoke it, you get so stoned you shit your pants" ".....Yeah....I don't wanna do that" But seriously, all these "Get attractive or thinner" quick things I want to smack people and ask them, don't you think if it really worked everyone would be using them? __________________ Every man dies, not every man really lives.

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08-01-2008, 07:54 AM	#3 (permalink)
psi chick SOT Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: NY Posts: 975 gXboxLive Leaderboard: 48^th	most people (read women) won't care. just look at that perscription diet pill that went OTC (forget the name). people were lining up for it, and one of the major, and common, side effects is that you shit yourself. yea, there's something i want to run out and buy.