Can’t Exercise? A Pill May One Day Offer Some of the Same Benefits

For those who can’t work out due to chronic pain, disability, or other obligations, a pill could some day offer some of the benefits of walking, squatting, or doing push-ups.

That’s right: scientists are working on an “exercise pill,” to help you if you can’t help yourself.

Two studies have been underway to examine the physical changes that the body undergoes after exercising, like building muscle, creating new cells, and developing blood vessels, in an attempt to duplicate them with chemical compounds.

In one of the studies, scientists at the University of Sydney, Australia were looking at ways to chemically replicate the benefits of exercise for people who couldn’t work out because of injury or illness.

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