Research carried out on pigs showed they ate almost 40% less food after ingesting the capsule

Dieters everywhere know that, no matter how inventive a chef you may be, nothing leaves you buzzing like sugary or fatty food.

Now science might have the answer: a vibrating pill, swallowed before eating, that creates feelings of fullness.

The research, which has yet to be carried out in humans, shows that after 30 minutes of activity by the Vibes pill, pigs ate on average almost 40% less food in the following half hour than they did without the device, and gained weight more slowly.

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As if throwing away batteries from single-use vapes wasn’t bad enough, now we’ll be literally shitting away single-use batteries directly into our sewage systems.

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Counting calories is hard enough that folks are going to probably decide to swallow a vibrating pill…

Neat.

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It’s not wildly better, but in a certain fairness, many of these people have less of an issue with calorie counting but rather have trouble with the raw discomfort of feeling hungry consistently.

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The vibrations, which are powered by a battery encased in the swallowed capsule, can be triggered when stomach acid dissolves a membrane around the pill, or by a timer.

Seems totally safe, certainly nothing can go wrong here.

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They’ve been doing it with cameras for some time now. Although I have not researched for any instance of injury.

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You mean a fully independent, swallowable camera?

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Yeah, saw it on TLC in the late 90’s early 2000 on life in the ER. Super low res but also had a light

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They use if for that purpose to detect issues in the intestinal lining

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So, eating slow carbs plus high quality protein is not good enough anymore?

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Imagine just having the will power to eat less!

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Just so I’m clear, I don’t mean to discount or invalidate genuine struggles.

It’s just that I’m seeing lots of news about medication which helps symptoms, but not their underlying cause.

There’s actually a really good video by Jeff Nippard, in which he dicusses the problematic view some people have, about obesity being a choice.

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So we’re into shitting lithium batteries into the sewage system now are we?

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