Tucked away near Lake Geneva, a handful of Nestle SA (NESN) scientists are quietly working on realizing every couch potato’s dream: exercise that comes in a bottle.

The world’s biggest food company, known for KitKat candy bars and Nespresso capsules, says it has identified how an enzyme in charge of regulating metabolism can be stimulated by a compound called C13, a potential first step in developing a way to mimic the fat-burning effect of exercise. The findings were published in the science journal Chemistry & Biology in July.


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The goal is to develop a nutritional product that mimics or enhances the effect of exercise for people with limited mobility due to old age, diabetes or obesity, Kei Sakamoto, the scientist who oversees research on diabetes and circadian rhythms at Nestle, said in a telephone interview. Testing on animals probably won’t start for several years, he said.

“The enzyme can help people who can’t tolerate or continue rigorous exercise,” Sakamoto said. “Instead of 20 minutes of jogging or 40 minutes of cycling, it may help boost metabolism with moderate exercise like brisk walking. They’d get similar effects with less strain.”


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“There’s still a lot about nutrition we don’t know and haven’t explored,” Ewa Hudson, head of health and wellness at Euromonitor in London, said in a phone interview. “You can’t be 100 percent certain of the outcome. It’s expensive. If anyone is to explore it, it would be a company like Nestle.”


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-18/exercise-in-a-bottle-is-next-food-frontier-for-nestle.html


세줄요약
1. 네슬레가 신진대사를 제어하는 물질, C13을 찾아냄
2. 네슬레는 이걸로 '먹기만 하면 몸이 운동을 한 것과 같은 상태가 되는' 혹은 '조금만 운동해도 아주 빡세게 운동한 것과 똑같은 상태가 되는' 음료를 개발하려고 시도 중
3. 하지만 아직 한참 멀었음. 10년은 기다려야 할 듯


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