Can mild vibrations make you thinner, with stronger bones? They apparently can if you're a mouse.
Clinton T. Rubin at the State University of New York at Stony Brook put mice on a vibrating platform for 15 minutes a day, five days a week, for 15 weeks and reported that the "buzzed" mice had 27 percent less fat and correspondingly more bone than mice who didn't undergo the treatment. The metabolic rates in the treated mice were no different from those in the control mice. There was also no...
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Stony Brook University researchers working with mice have found that standing on a vibrating plate helped the animals form more bone mass and less... Read more »
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