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

Question

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?

In: Biology

Answer 1

The problem is that there is no hormone that JUST controls weight loss, they do a LOT of other things in conjunction. If you just increase the hormones related to lean muscle mass that burn fat, but your body doesn’t ACTUALLY have that lean muscle mass, you could easily box your organs or give yourself a heart attack.

That said, there is just a thing as hormone therapy, but that wouldn’t be available for most people under most circumstance, as the benefit would not outweigh the risk.