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Imagine you, slouched on the bed, all week, then you get up, went jogging on the treadmill, played ball with the kids, joined a marathon stretch, and your body reacted well. All just because you took a pill, an AICAR exercise pill that made your body respond perfectly as if you have been exercising for weeks! That would be cool right? No more lazy Toms, everybody would be healthy. Best of all, no side effects!

Researchers, Evans and his colleagues, who genetically engineered “marathon mice” that could run for hours have found two drugs that can mimic these effects. The drugs reproduce many of the biological benefits of exercise, helping cells burn fat better and boosting endurance. One of the pills may some day help people enhance their exercise or training.

“If you like exercise, you like the idea of getting more bang for your buck,” Evans said in a statement. “If you don’t like exercise, you love the idea of getting the benefits from a pill.”

Evans and his colleagues, by experimenting on mice’s, are trying to find a way to mimic genetically engineered mice could run twice as far as normal mice and stayed lean even when fed a high-fat diet. Once the study is perfected, we ordinary humans could hope to stay healthy and live healthy too.

“Almost no one gets the recommended 40 minutes to an hour per day of exercise,” Evans said. “For this group of people, if there was a way to mimic exercise, it would make the quality of exercise that they do much more efficient.”

The pills are only available experimentally now and Evans is not working with any drug company. But GW1516 has a relatively simple chemical structure and can be synthesized easily. Let’s just wait and see how this evolves to benefit us all.

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