We keep writing it here: physical exercise remains the best remedy to prevent disease including obesity. Thus, doctors regularly advocate walking to slow down Parkinson’s disease, the bike to fight against sleep disorders or running for increase life expectancy.
But the flip side is that all of these activities require you to be in relatively good physical condition to be practiced regularly. Researchers therefore had the idea of developing a drug that would reproduce all the beneficial effects of physical exercise, without effort.
Reproduce what is happening in the muscles
Using the technique of mass spectrometry, which can detect and identify molecules, researchers at the School of Molecular Bioscience in Sydney (Australia) have listed all the protein changes that occur in muscles after physical exercise. . For this experiment, published in the scientific journal Cell metabolism, Dr Nolan Hoffman and his team took muscle biopsies from 4 healthy men before and after high-intensity exercise.
They then listed the different biological modifications: a mapping that took them three years. The next step will be to list the metabolic changes that are most beneficial for people suffering from obesity or Type 2 diabetes in the hope of being able to reproduce them with the help of chemistry. According to the researchers, this will only take about ten years.
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