It doesn’t matter whether you’re a bodybuilder or just an average Joe because we all have trouble controlling our eating habits at times. However, a new discovery by Australian scientists may allow a person to eat whatever they want and still keep a ripped, muscular body using ACE inhibitors - the common blood pressure medications.

Breakdowns... every bodybuilder, every athlete, every person has them at some point in their life. Breakdowns in training, in preparation, and especially in dieting. I myself have definitely been prone to these dark moments when trying to drop weight to reach my bodybuilding goals. Busting into the freezer to grab a bowl of ice cream, replacing wheat toast with waffles at breakfast, and stopping at fast food places late at night were things that sometimes prevented me from being the best I could be.

Fortunately I'm always comforted by the fact that I'm not the only one who is prone to these breakdowns in dieting as many other people struggle with eating clean.

But what if there was some way that people could eat the foods they want while still being able to keep a ripped, muscular body? Even more amazing, what if people could eat the foods that they want while still losing weight? The second question sounds almost too crazy to be asked, however, the crazy may now be possible thanks to some new findings by Australian scientists...

Anyone who keeps up on the diet industry knows that existing drugs in other realms can often be found to be very effective at combating weight loss. I myself can remember writing an article recently about one of these in the drug called ObCurewhich was used for decades as a treatment for vertigo before a scientist reasoned its effects could work towards weight loss as well.Here's a link to the article on ObCure.

Well some Australian scientists may have been the next group to uncover a new usage for a drug long used for something else. The product in question is ACE inhibitors and the Australians claim that they may be able to speed up people’s metabolism allowing them to lose unwanted pounds quite easily.

Currently, ACE inhibitors are used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure) and heart failure. But some new studies run by the scientists are suggesting that ACE inhibitors are far more useful than previously imagined.

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Their discovery took place when the aforementioned Australian scientists decided to do experiments on some mice that were genetically engineered to be missing an enzyme that lays in fat cells. The group of mice that didn’t have this specific enzyme in their fat cells weighed 20% less than the mice who had nothing altered in them but, more importantly, the genetically altered mice also had 60% less body fat.

To keep things even, the scientists made sure that the mice that were missing the fat cell enzymes didn’t eat anything extra than the placebo mice and activity was monitored to ensure that neither group exercised a whole lot more too. This is what made the results of the study even more amazing in that nothing was changed except for the enzyme.

It showed the scientists that it had to be a sped-up metabolism at work here. In addition to this, they later found out that the mice also processed sugar a lot quicker than the placebo mice showing that their risk of diabetes was lower as well.

So what’s this have to do with ACE inhibitors you may ask? Well ACE inhibitors happen to block the same enzyme that the mice in the Australian experiment had blocked. This means that there is a possibility they could produce the same effect in humans as they did with the mice.

However, while we’d all like to hail ACE inhibitors as the drug that could combat obesity once and for all, the theory of them working as fat fighters is only an assumption at this point. And let’s remember, mice aren’t humans and the FDA would never allow any drug to be used for a purpose they’re not intended for unless extensive clinical studies have been performed.

As Melbourne University researcher Dr. Michael Matthias said regarding ACE inhibitors, “The drugs are out there because they are used for hypertension. So we know their safety and their tolerability. What we don’t know is whether or not they will work in humans.”

Matthias went on to sum up his thoughts on the subject by mentioning, “I don't think this will replace the need for careful control of diet and encouraging more exercise. If people look at increasing their food intake then all that will do is cancel out the beneficial effects of increasing metabolic rate.”

Matthias’ statements were somewhat echoed by the medical director of the British Weight Concern in Dr. Ian Campbell when he said, “All the evidence we have is that nothing works better than a healthy diet and increased physical activity, with or without weight loss drugs.”

I’ll have to admit that I would tend to agree with Matthias and Campbell in that nothing is more important to a person’s physical appearance or health than working out and eating right. However, people can always benefit from a little boost here and there – especially if they start slipping in their dieting or training!

Now I certainly don’t want to be advocating bodybuilders or other people stuffing their faces with sundaes and hot dogs if they ever get their hands on a miracle drug that could speed up one’s metabolism to the tune of a 60% loss in fat. However, the way that more and more people are looking in this world (and this isn’t meant to be a compliment), I would definitely welcome a super-effective fat fighting drug to the market.

In the case of ACE inhibitors, who knows when this might be though. As Dr. Matthias said, we already know that they’re safe and reliable from their usage in combating hypertension, however, several clinical trials will have to be performed on humans which could take quite a while. But as the old saying goes, better late than never.

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