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There are multiple confounding factors: * Blood sugar levels (or whatever this is a proxy for) * Weight * The changes the GLP-1 Agonists make to the body its
by ebiester 2y ago
There are multiple confounding factors:
* Blood sugar levels (or whatever this is a proxy for)
* Weight
* The changes the GLP-1 Agonists make to the body itself.
While it is simple to say if you reduce the weight, you reduce the blood sugar levels, and so the GLP-1 is unnecessary, you can look at many accounts of using Ozempic where it talks about reducing the "food noise."
That is, Ozempic makes it easier to eat the right things. I'm a "normal weight" through grit, but I don't think my life is better through said grit - in fact, I'd say it's significantly worse. In my earlier life, I was naturally thin, and I can say that my weight increase wasn't a significant change to my diet, nor was my weight loss: I just had to be hungry and irritable more.
So, fundamentally, the cause and effect doesn't matter, because the drug makes it easier to be a more healthy weight and to control the blood sugar.
- Spivak 2y ago> nor was my weight loss: I just had to be hungry and irritable more Yes! I keep trying to explain to folks that this is the benefit of these drugs, they let you keep a healthy relationship with food, maintain "intuitive eating" where you aren't constantly fighting and discarding your hunger signals, and aren't (as) miserable doing it. I did it the hard way, I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
- Someone1234 2y agoI keep making the comparison to nicotine gum/patches, but for food. I'm hoping that such a simple analogy might help some people move past their innate biases, but not much traction so far.
- mjburgess 2y agoIn western societies with high levels of obesity, health is a signal of wealth and prestige. There's no "innate bias" here, just alarm over the debasement of the value of being thin and healthy. It's a cruel posturing, nothing more.