Exercise Pill?

Steve - if this therapy works, what are the chances that Big Pharma will offer this to every human on the planet? I can just see it now. "Hate to exercise? Don't worry, we have a pill that can trick your body into thinking it is really exercising when it is not!"

For osteoporosis patients unable to exercise, help may be on the way. That's because scientists have discovered precisely how mechanical stress, such as exercise, promotes new bone growth. This opens the door to entirely new therapies that can trick bones into thinking they are getting a workout. The research report describing this advance is published in The FASEB Journal. This information could lead to the development of new drugs that cause the same benefits to the skeleton as exercise, which would be beneficial to patients with osteoporosis.