Would You Take a Vibrating Pill For Weight Loss?

Have you heard there’s a vibrating pill for weight loss? As crazy as it sounds, it actually exists. Would you take it? Should you? Is there a better alternative? A vibrating pill named vibes for vibrating ingestible. Bioelectronic stimulator is being trumpeted for its potential in treating obesity without medication or surgery. The pill is about the size of a large multivitamin and contains a vibrating motor and battery enclosed into gelatinous membrane. When swallowed stomach acids dissolve the gelatin membrane activating the motor, which causes vibrations. These vibrations trick the stomach muscles into feeling stretched, which triggers the sensation of fullness in the stomach without food. Present. Experiments on pigs showed a 40% reduction in food intake over two weeks compared to a control group. Despite not losing weight, the pigs taking the pill gained weight more slowly than those without it. The hormone levels in the pigs with the pill also matched patterns typically seen after large meals, which suggests this promotes a feeling of fullness. Oh, the pigs haven’t commented on that. While promising this device has yet to be tested in humans, and it would need to be taken with each meal, so if you’re not sure about taking a vibrating pill, there is a natural and completely safe way to elicit the same fullness or satiety reflex, and that’s through soluble fiber. Soluble fiber when combined with water safely triggers the stomach stretch receptors, which causes a feeling of fullness. Not all fibers are equal in this department. Some of them make you feel more full than others, particularly hydrolyzed guru gum and sodium alginate topping the list of filling fibers. So would you take a vibrating pill? Comment below what you think about that.