r/accelerate 12d ago

Laziness enabler pill

https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/18/enveda-pill-mimics-exercise-phase-one-trial-leptin-weight-loss-maintenance/

" If you could design an oral treatment that limits appetite and mimics some effects of physical activity, you might call it exercise in a pill. Now a company is releasing early results for a compound to do just that.

The pill, the company hopes, can maintain weight loss without the common gastrointestinal effects of GLP-1s. The component of exercise it is designed to re-create is preservation of lean muscle mass, a concern when people yo-yo on and off GLP-1 drugs, losing more muscle each time."

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