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Tragic to observe the typical Dallas Buyers Club dynamic at play. People are coordinating online and locally and doing border runs for the Mexico-available GLP-

Tragic to observe the typical Dallas Buyers Club dynamic at play. People are coordinating online and locally and doing border runs for the Mexico-available GLP-1 predecessors. The Mounjaro patent appears to be until '39, with no generics available at the moment. As one of the patients states in the article, obesity may very well lead them to diabetes. People will die. And with the shortage affecting current diabetics, they are dying now.

automatic6131 4y ago
>obesity may very well lead them to diabetes. People will die. How scary! If only there was a reliable way for patients to prevent this disease :-(
- counttheforks 4y ago
  Like taking the drug? If you're implying people should "just eat less", that's clearly not very reliable.
  - pwinnski 4y ago
    Not only unreliable, but ignorant. There is so much in hormone responses and often-undiagnosed conditions that makes "just eat less" absolutely irrelevant to many people.
    - rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 4y ago
      >There is so much in hormone responses and often-undiagnosed conditions that makes "just eat less" absolutely irrelevant to many people. I agree with your that's why you see many obese people in parts of the world with food shortages.
  - automatic6131 4y ago
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    - NotPavlovsDog 4y ago
      If you're paying for insurance in the US you are paying for them. Check out how insurance pools work. Society, even a wild capitalist society, benefits from healthier members. I'm a former professional athlete and am currently, in my middle age, in better shape than most, including youths in their 20s, with blood tests to prove it. When I was making weight, it was extremely difficult to find the balance to fine-tune the diet. Those 400 grams for me were just as difficult to shed, while performing to task. And I had a professional team behind me. Consumerist civilization is obsessed with the magic pill, we agree on that. A pharma subscription for life is not the solution. However, I personally know, and there are people like that commenting in this post, individuals that were unlucky to be born obese. If you are going to take a grand statement position, familiarize yourself with what that does to a hormonal system. And that is only one sub-case of many where obesity is completely outside of an individual's control. With industrialized food, including sugar, HFC and carbohydrate lobbying corrupting the policy in the US for longer than 70 years, and that is a number simply of convenience, since we have easily accessible records of such industry lobbying, obese individuals are not the cause of the problem. Having more tools to address obesity is a good thing. Hopefully, one arrow of many towards a systemic approach.
alwayslikethis 4y ago
When the demand is enough, some overseas companies will start producing it without permission. Russia has announced that it will not honor patents from "unfriendly" countries, so they might as well start making these drugs in large amounts to make up for their declining gas revenues.

automatic6131 4y ago

>obesity may very well lead them to diabetes. People will die. How scary! If only there was a reliable way for patients to prevent this disease :-(

counttheforks 4y ago
Like taking the drug? If you're implying people should "just eat less", that's clearly not very reliable.
- pwinnski 4y ago
  Not only unreliable, but ignorant. There is so much in hormone responses and often-undiagnosed conditions that makes "just eat less" absolutely irrelevant to many people.
  - rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 4y ago
    >There is so much in hormone responses and often-undiagnosed conditions that makes "just eat less" absolutely irrelevant to many people. I agree with your that's why you see many obese people in parts of the world with food shortages.
- automatic6131 4y ago
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  - NotPavlovsDog 4y ago
    If you're paying for insurance in the US you are paying for them. Check out how insurance pools work. Society, even a wild capitalist society, benefits from healthier members. I'm a former professional athlete and am currently, in my middle age, in better shape than most, including youths in their 20s, with blood tests to prove it. When I was making weight, it was extremely difficult to find the balance to fine-tune the diet. Those 400 grams for me were just as difficult to shed, while performing to task. And I had a professional team behind me. Consumerist civilization is obsessed with the magic pill, we agree on that. A pharma subscription for life is not the solution. However, I personally know, and there are people like that commenting in this post, individuals that were unlucky to be born obese. If you are going to take a grand statement position, familiarize yourself with what that does to a hormonal system. And that is only one sub-case of many where obesity is completely outside of an individual's control. With industrialized food, including sugar, HFC and carbohydrate lobbying corrupting the policy in the US for longer than 70 years, and that is a number simply of convenience, since we have easily accessible records of such industry lobbying, obese individuals are not the cause of the problem. Having more tools to address obesity is a good thing. Hopefully, one arrow of many towards a systemic approach.

alwayslikethis 4y ago

When the demand is enough, some overseas companies will start producing it without permission. Russia has announced that it will not honor patents from "unfriendly" countries, so they might as well start making these drugs in large amounts to make up for their declining gas revenues.