New Drugs offer Promise of Fitness w/out effort

[Hornius Emeritus]

Hmmm ... On the one hand, I can see where these would be really good for certain groups of people.

On the other hand, what's the point of looking great without suffering for it? Will the "currency" of fitness be devalued if anybody can achieve it just by taking drugs? And what about the runner's high? Will that still come?


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[fratboy_legend]

whats the point of suffering if you dont have to?

 

[Hornius Emeritus]

The Buddhists say that the essence of life is suffering, and that the essence of suffering is desire.

Personally, I don't view working out hard as suffering, though there may be a certain amount of suffering contained therein.

 

[l00p]

The Buddah also says that vanity is not good. That over fitness is not good. Then again, he was a lardass so of course he felt that way.

 

[accuratehorn]

Some of you are never going to achieve Nirvanah.

 

[HornHuskerDad]

No pain, no gain.

HHD

 

[notreally]

the article is confusing.

while it makes it clear if you take it you can run further than if you didn't, it doesn't really say if it would build muscle (like if you worked out) or not.

it seems you can run a longer distance, but that seems to be more a function of cardiovascular health.... so is that where the gains are going to?

 

[MilkmanDan]

It's better than the old drugs that promise effort without fitness.

 

[general35]

They should help people who are too frail to exercise and those with health problems like diabetes that are improved with exercise, Dr. Evans said.
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and all the fat people...

 

[general35]

“It is possible that the couch potato segment of the population might find this to be a good regimen, and of course that is a large number of people.”
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no ****

 

[Bevo Incognito]

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[hornpharmd]

People's attitudes about pharmaceutical treatment is just ****** up. They will take a pill for anything and think it will work.

The really sad thing is that many of these drugs become prescriptions like they are real medical treatments. How about giving somebody a prescription for a gym or a bike to ride or something.

They hide behind the fact that there is a real need perhaps for some of these drugs for a small% of the population but soon there is a large% of the population taking ADHD drugs, sleeping pills, and antidepressants that doesn't need them.

Oh wait what am I saying, this is how I make my living and support my family.

 

[MirrOlure]

So this thing was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute?

Wow. Talk about irony, considering how popping pills turned Howard Hughes into a stark raving lunatic.