A slimming pill based on the same active ingredient as a drug normally used for those suffering from bladder incontinence or bladder overactivity . It sounds absurd, but that’s exactly what some experts have discovered: mirabegron , a molecule used to relax the muscles of the urinary-genital tract, would have unexpected effects on metabolism. 200 mg would be enough to burn over two hundred calories more: this is because mirabegron would act on brown fat, which as we know is the type of fat that tends to burn energy to maintain basal temperature and which in adults is inversely reduced. their body weight.
This kind of fatit is not the normal white fat that we call flab , and the more you have, the less you have in your body. Knowing its key role in weight loss, scientists have discovered that a molecule is able to activate it to burn more calories, in fact. Mirabegron, active ingredient of a drug against incontinence and overactive bladder. The bizarre discovery is due to Dr. Aaron Cypess of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Boston, and to his team of researchers, who did a study on a sample of people, finding that they lost weight thanks to a metabolism faster.