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

Fat is how our body stores energy. When we need the energy we burn the fat, like how a car burns gas.

When your car burns gas, it’s using the energy to move. If you burn gas in a puddle, without the moving car to use up the energy, you get a big fire as all the energy in the gas is released as heat and light.

If your body just started burning fat without you doing anything with that energy, you’d get super hot and quickly die of a fever.