Hormone triggers are responsible for burning fat, right? Why aren’t there drugs that exploit and supercharge this process?

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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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In a more general sense, hormones do a lot more than just one thing. I learned in college “a hormone is involved in everything and responsible for nothing.” For example, you might think of serotonin as the “happy hormone,” but its also involved in digestion! I went through SSRI withdrawal once and one symptom was diarrhea. So you can’t just have more or less of one hormone to solve one specific specific problem with no side effects.

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