At some point, I am sure that I have revealed my love of the NPR program Science Friday to everyone I know. I rarely get to listen to it, but podcast and occasionally catch up on the segments I have missed. Last week's program had a researcher who has created a pill to trick our muscles into thinking that they have exercised. Thus, the researcher has created the long awaited 'exercise in a bottle'! As I played devil's advocate in my car, as if I were on peer review for the article/journal, I was listing all of the reasons this wouldn't work. There are so many things that exercise provides for us that this pill could not. On the other hand, what a breakthrough for people who have disease processes that create atrophy of muscles. A review of the article was in Scientific American. It is worth a read...
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