>Should we be concerned about needing drugs to treat obesity? This comment of yours made me think of this comment from another article about another obesity dr

>Should we be concerned about needing drugs to treat obesity? This comment of yours made me think of this comment from another article about another obesity drug I read recently: "The history of medicine includes the following story many times: there’s some condition that doctors recommend lifestyle changes for. Then an exciting new medication comes out that treats the condition effectively. Over a generation or so, doctors go from demanding the lifestyle change, to gesturing at the lifestyle change before prescribing the medication, to mostly just prescribing the medication. We saw this with cholesterol and statins, with hypertension and ACE inhibitors, with depression and SSRIs. You can form your own opinion on whether this is good or bad, but we’re probably in the very beginning of this process with obesity. Opinions will be all over the map for a while before the inevitable pharma company victory makes everyone agree that semaglutide is first-line therapy." https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/semaglutidonomics https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/semaglutidonomics