Exercise isn’t good only for building muscle and losing weight. “If a pill could give you all benefits of exercise, it would be the best pill around,” says Edward Laskowski, co-director of Mayo Clinic ...
An experimental oral drug claims to do the work of medications like GLP-1s without losing muscle mass. The medication just went through phase 1 clinical trials. Doctors explain the new medication and ...
NEW ORLEANS, March 18, 2024 — Doctors have long prescribed exercise to improve and protect health. In the future, a pill may offer some of the same benefits as exercise. Now, researchers report on new ...
Atrogi AB is making a bid for a slice of the obesity market and has dosed the first overweight subjects with ATR-258, an oral therapy it says mimics the effects of exercise, driving loss of fat whilst ...
Can the mental health benefits of exercise be bottled as an antidepressant? A new Molecular Psychiatry paper (Fabiano et al., 2026) examines "exercise mimetics" as unexplored therapeutics for treating ...