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> Ozempic seems to be something of a miracle. It’s a very effective treatment for diabetes as well as high blood pressure, heart failure, and kidney disease. Ne
by riffraff 2y ago
> Ozempic seems to be something of a miracle. It’s a very effective treatment for diabetes as well as high blood pressure, heart failure, and kidney disease. New evidence suggests that it improves depression and reduces suicidality, and it also seems, unexpectedly, to reduce non-food-related addictive behaviors, like gambling. Studies are underway to see if it prevents cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
reminds me of cortisone, which was also hailed (and partially is) a sort of panacea. Turned out not to be a cure for everything, and with some significant downsides, while still being a very valuable drug.
- juoitre 2y agoSee also dicyclomine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicycloverine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicycloverine
- borski 2y agoIt's hard to differentiate because so many of the positive effects of GLP-1 drugs correlate so well with just... weight loss. So in that sense, we will have to see - but if obesity and/or T2D is a trigger for lots of other diseases (and we know it is), then it would appear that fighting it effectively would help fix metabolic syndrome and many of the other diseases that are often comorbid with it.