Anicet Mbida 06:53, June 21, 2022

Every day, Anicet Mbida makes us discover an innovation that could well change the way we consume.

This Tuesday, he is interested in an invention that could please people who do not like to exercise.

It is a "gym pill" to improve endurance and physical condition, without having to train.

This morning, you are telling us about an innovation that we have all dreamed of: it is a “gym pill”.

It would be enough to take a pill to transform us into athletes, without having to do any exercise.

It is serious ?

It is very serious !

This is a discovery of researchers from the medical schools of Baylor College and Stanford University in the United States.

They tested it on a group of somewhat flabby and overweight mice.

After ten days, those given the pill stopped binging on their own.

And when we made them run in a wheel, they lasted almost two hours longer than their comrades.

Which is huge.

Proof that the pill improves endurance and physical condition, without having to train.

And that in addition, it regulates the appetite.

Applied to humans, this would mean that we could transform an obese homebody into an accomplished jogger.

That makes dream !

It still looks like doping.

Not really.

They also tried the pill on sports mice, and it made no difference.

The results are really spectacular only in those who do no exercise.

In fact, they have identified a substance that the body secretes when we play sports.

The substance that pushes the body to transform and that ends up making it as effective as those who train regularly.

It turns out that a similar substance is secreted in both men and women.

So after rodents, it may be humans who could benefit from it.

What will it be used for in the end?

To sell miracle pills on teleshopping?

No, the objective of the researchers is rather to help those who have real difficulties in exercising: the elderly for example, or all those who have heart problems, diabetes or breath.

This would make it easier and more natural for them to improve their health.

But I imagine that some will also try to sell us “gym pills”.

And we will end up rushing, because we are big lazy people… And our laziness has become the biggest driver of innovation.