The Importance Of Exercise Obsolete By Nicola Twilley

The futuristic, seemingly inconceivable concept of a medication that could replicate exercise is examined by Nicola Twilley in “A Pill To Make Exercise Obsolete”, published in The New Yorker. Investigating several such exercise-supplements that exist today, Twilley explores the idea of exercise and its health implications on a broad scale; Assessing how exercise was viewed throughout human history, how it exists in the natural world, and how it seemingly benefits innumerable systems in the human body (as demonstrated by modern medical research). Throughout the informative article, Twilley introduces different perspectives and scientific research to compel The New Yorkers demographic (especially athletes or those affected by the medical conditions …show more content…
Only recently, due to the comforts of the industrialized world, has exercise’s value been fully realized. This statement combined with a plethora of scientific research from credible sources such as the CDC, demonstrating the importance of exercise and the contrast in health between those who partake in exercise and those who do not, appeals to the reader’s logic. The historical context and the modern scientific research working in tandem allow the reader to deduce the importance of exercise and its health implications, and by association, the importance of a pill that could replace …show more content…
In the foremost section of the article, Twilley writes about how one of the leading drug-companies responsible for producing an “exercise pill” had scrapped it mid-project after mice that were treated with it developed cancer at abnormal rates. The idea that prominent drug company that had invested a great deal of time and resources in creating this pill would abandon it with such finality implies the significance of the danger of the medication to the