Okay but what does it do with the energy from burning the fat?? Like, if you aren’t moving or doing anything you just have an excess of energy going where?
Well, waste energy is expelled as heat so… I bet they heat up. Kinda like how if you take a stimulant that raises your heart rate but you aren’t doing anything at the same time, you tend to feel warmer.
In summary, the ERR agonist SLU-PP-332 functions as an exercise mimetic inducing an acute aerobic exercise program that leads to myriad physiological adaptations that are associated with exercise including increased skeletal muscle oxidative fibers, increased fatty acid oxidation, and enhanced exercise endurance
I also had that same idea of creating a small army of super swole mice to help me pull off the ultimate heist on the federal reserve, but since you thought of first I guess you can have it
Like someone on lemmy once said: tools like this will make the climate situation worse since people can eat what they want and not have to worry about gaining weight. The drug is certainly going to help a specific group of patients but it’s very likely that it’ll be abused.
And then a few years later in generic form for much, much less.
I'm actually not terribly put out by the initial high cost of these things, especially when it's something that isn't a vital life-saving treatment that people have no choice but to try. Every new technology starts out expensive and gets cheaper as competition arises and better manufacturing techniques are developed.
I don't see how that's relevant. This is about a drug that simulates exercise. It's a convenience drug. If you're literally dying from lack of exercise, there are other less conveninet ways to do that already.
the trend is toward life-extention beyond natural limits. this has massive social implications and I don’t see anything that promises real artificial longevity ever becoming affordable by us plebs.
pehaps, but the trend is there and its accelerating. I suspect that in short order (timeline unknown) we will actually have a legitimately marketable “life extension” option at which point its only a matter of degrees. the extra x years that you and I might possibly afford will eventually pale in comparison to the extra y years for the truly wealthy - at that point, generational wealth and power take on a wholly new and rather frightening dimension.
I admit… I may have a particularly bleak view of our possible futures, but an “undead” ruling class does not figure into any rosy endings that I can envision.
I think my "and then a few years later in generic form for much, much less" prediction would still apply here. There's always going to be demand for life-extension treatments at every wealth level, so any company that can figure out how to make it more cheaply than the others is going to have an additional market they can offer the treatment to that's further down the pay scale from the others. A pharma company wouldn't maximize profit by selling to only a handful of billionaires when they could also be selling to all the millionaires that are also out there.
another horrible outcome for humans: a super race of gigantic, muscular rats with high libidos (that multiply very quickly) and want to overtake our food supply and keep us as pets
Lol ikr. I’ll be a pet I just hope I get fed well enough and get to sleep a lot and if they decide to eat me they shoot me in the head. Sounds kinda nice…
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