The idea of getting some of exercise’s benefits from a pill has hovered somewhere between serious medicine and science fiction. Now, one such drug has made it through its first test in people. Enveda, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Dreamstime) Could some of the metabolic benefits of exercise someday come in a pill? An experimental drug designed to mimic a ...

If exercise isn't exactly your favourite way to spend your free time, the idea of getting some of its benefits from a pill probably sounds pretty appealing. And while we're a long way from replacing ...

After Popeye the Sailor Man eats a can of spinach, he can grow strong muscles. Can the rest of us now also take a pill that does the job of exercise? In the June issue of the journal Nature, a ...

It sounds like something out of a utopian vision of the future from a 1970s science-fiction movie: What if you could reap all the benefits of exercise without lifting a finger? Or, more accurately, ...

Can the mental health benefits of exercise be bottled as an antidepressant? A new Molecular Psychiatry paper (Fabiano et al., 2026) examines "exercise mimetics" as unexplored therapeutics for treating ...

A pill designed to mimic the effects of exercise just passed its first human clinical trial. ENV-308 appears to be safe in humans, according to the findings. But doctors say we’re a long way off from ...