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‘Exercise pill’ turns couch potato mice into marathoners

Drug tricks the body into burning fat like a trained athlete

mouse on an excercise wheel

WORKOUTS BEGONE  An experimental drug increases the running endurance of sedentary mice.

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

By Laura Beil

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