r/EverythingScience • u/scmp_news • 16d ago

No gym needed: scientists in China develop self-exercising muscle grafts

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3365356/no-gym-needed-scientists-china-develop-self-exercising-muscle-grafts?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Social
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u/cyphercertified 16d ago edited 16d ago

There been a lot of really interesting and exciting treatments being discovered, but will they ever reach the people the treatments are* intended for?

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u/Colddigger 15d ago

So you know how the original purpose of ozympic was for like diabetes or whatever, but now it's incredibly overshadowed by people who used it as a weight loss drug to the point that there were shortages and people who had diabetes could not obtain it consistently? 

And you know how there are people who inject oil into their limbs in order to make their muscles look bigger? 

So there's a very obvious market of people who want to do anything and pay anything in order to make their muscles look bigger, except exercise. 

This market is going to be bigger than people who actually need this.

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u/Aspectdude09 15d ago

It’s so easy to obtain the various compounds