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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Because appetite suppressors and things that slow or prevent absorption make more sense.

Messing with certain hormones is a bigger deal, as those hormones tend to do more than one thing at a time.

Also, you can’t just magically burn fat. The energy from it has to go somewhere. If you were super fat, and started burning fat while still not doing exercise, it means your body is running processes to burn that energy. It would probably make you heat up a lot, or make your jittery, or some other side effect.

So, just making something that stops the extra calories from going into your body in the first place just works better.

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