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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Burning fat is a really complicated process. You can’t just flip the ‘burn fat’ switch and have that happen without any other side effects. There are all kinds of attempts, but they aren’t successful as our hormones are in charge of so many things, our energy usage is so tightly linked, that there’s no easy way to “just” burn extra calories without risking all kinds of other wild side effects.

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