It is being reported that exercise pills are currently under development to save all the lazy couch potatoes from having to actually get up off the couch and stop watching
Dancing with the Stars and football long enough to maintain circulation to a degree that they don't appear dead to onlookers.
Pills going through animal trials as we speak are set to attempt to mimic physical activity. Things like burning fat, forming new blood vessels, reinvigorating old cells and enhancing muscle fibers.
While they could be curing cancer already or, say, helping to fix some of the downright toxic, endocrine disrupting, hormone mimicking issues we have in a world where our systems are inundated with industrial byproducts and thousands of chemicals daily, the scientists over at these pharmaceutical companies would rather appeal to utterly lazy people with a new wonder drug and replace the last bastion of actual physical activity a nearly entirely computer-driven society ever sees in a day.
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The world needs exercise pills. Some of the most costly public health menaces in the United States, for instance, stem from our sedentary lifestyles, including obesity, diabetes and heart disease. In theory, good ol' fashioned exercise would help far more than any pill—but only if people actually did it.
Fine, fine, people don't work out as much as they should...
But really, on the flipside, how much of a fat lazy jerk would you feel like if you spent however many hundreds of dollars a month they will likely charge on these so-called exercise pills just to avoid getting off your duff?
Aren't they just reinforcing the pervasive lie we can all get something without having to work for it?
This sounds like the lotto ticket of prescription meds.
Can science really trick the body into thinking it exercised with synthetic chemical compounds? Science isn't doing such a good job of tricking the body into thinking its nourished with synthetic, chemical-filled foods...
Comment: When will Big Pharma and Big Food realize that the
synergistic effects of exercise cannot be 'bought'? Dr. Mercola address the
intellectual arrogance of such an approach:
When done correctly, exercise can often times act as a substitute for some of the most common drugs used for things like diabetes, heart disease, and depression. Unfortunately, a side effect of our modern quick fix culture is that many still wish for a magic pill or elixir, and Nestlé now claims to be able to bottle the benefits of exercise...
The Allure of 'Exercise in a Bottle'
Nutritional supplements can serve an important function by helping to correct specific nutritional imbalances or deficiencies, but trust me - they will never be able to replace physical exercise...
The intellectual arrogance of this approach is only exceeded by Nestle's egregious attempts at profits with disregard to health. It reminds me of their efforts to stop women in third world countries from breastfeeding so they could sell them vastly inferior synthetic formula that they made.
Clearly, a great many people struggle with weight issues. But to think that an "exercise potion" will be able to save you from the hassle of having to break a sweat is nothing short of delusional. There is simply no way a supplement will be able to stimulate your muscle to provide the complex physiology they need to provide you with optimal health.
Comment: When will Big Pharma and Big Food realize that the synergistic effects of exercise cannot be 'bought'? Dr. Mercola address the intellectual arrogance of such an approach: