I think you are thinking of PPAR-δ agonists, it’s not about making exercise fun though. More like exercise in a pill. It worked, but gave the rats tumours I believe. People use it anyway, which seems a bit risky.
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Chocrates@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThat’s not true. They have put mouse exercise wheels in the wild and mice use them for fun. Mice love to run.
There was actually an interesting “exercise drug” line of research seeing if they could make a pharmaceutical that would make exercise fun. Wonder if that went anywhere.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Chocrates@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah I know about that one! But in that same article (assuming we are thinking about the same one) they interviewed another scientist working on the other kind of drug.
Last I checked a less tumour inducing version of the drug was going into phase 1 clinical trials for muscular dystrophyin the last year or so
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Good, it’s an exciting area of research. Don’t know about any article, I just happen to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of PEDs. I’d definitely be interested to hear about the other thing.
Chocrates@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I would personally love an exercise pill. I have pretty severe depression so getting into an exercise routine is a huge struggle. If I could take some medication that helped I would be so happy.
Arrkk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah that’s just MDMA.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Which they of course then banned because fun is not allowed