Proper exercise is hard to come by, when your back is basically broken. I want to pop some Notbuprofen and feel the burn as the pounds melt away.
In theory, a drug that stimulates the hormones that demand the burning of fat *should* be possible. Why isn’t it, and/or why has no one made this yet?
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Those drugs do exist, in fact, they have existed for quite some time already, with most of them beign adopted throught the 20th century medical practices – and usually for weight loss, appetite suppression, fatigue reduction, “anti-sleep”, cognition improvement and many other uses. Those medications are generally called stimulants.
However, most of them have been outright banned in many countries, had clinical trials suspended or have been modified and mixed with other compounds to lessen their side effects.
The main reason for this, is that most stimulants were causing higher rates of heart diseases, psychiatric conditions and death – which in term raised the costs of healthcare worldwide in short and long term. Depending on the substance, this can occur even in regular use under medical observation.
Nowadays (apart from illegal/recreational use), some of those substances did receive some “upgrades” in their composition after it was discovered as a form of treatment for certain diseases, like narcolepsy, ADHD, still for weight loss in some medical protocols.
TLDR: those drugs do exist, however they cause heart problems and death. And due to the whole thing about weight loss beign recommended is because obesity = more deaths and heart diseases, it has been determined by scientists (and countries) that for a medication like that to be legally prescribed, it needs to not cause the diseases it’s supossed to prevent.
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