Can A Miraculous 'Exercise Pill' Replace Real Exercise?

It would be a vast relief for many people to know that an exercise for just one minute can help you to experience the benefits of a great workout. Just pop one 'exercise pill', reports The Washington Post 

Scientists have a lot to say about the influence of studies on a person's "metabolism, organs, circulation and muscles". They explain that the data can create a pill to make the body mimic the beneficial effects.

This pill is getting made in various laboratories.

"We have recognized the need for exercise pills for some time, and this is an achievable goal based on our improved understanding of the molecular targets of physical exercise," study co-author Ismail Laher at the University of British Columbia's Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics said in a press release.

One pill to replace a workout sounds like a dream for a bone lazy person. But Laher points out that while the health benefits of actual exercise cannot be replaced, such a pill can help those who have some problems, such as people suffering from spinal cord injuries and stroke. The pill can only be a supplement, not substitute for a healthy workout, he said.

"I want to be clear that really there is no way to replace routine exercise with an exercise pill," Laher said. "Exercise requires your heart rate to go up, blood to flow faster, and you cannot do that with an exercise pill ... but in particular groups, it's the next best thing."

More study needs to see how the pill can benefit the body, and how they could be misused by not only humans but also those treating animals, according to HNGN.

"We are at the early stages of this exciting new field," he said. "Further development of exercise pills that act in combination may be more effective than single compounds. We just don't know anything about their long-term use in humans yet."

The study was published in the current issue of the journal Trends in Pharmacological Sciences.