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What would happen to the main and brain with "Healthy" wakefulness promoting drugs .
by v3ss0n 1y ago
What would happen to the main and brain with "Healthy" wakefulness promoting drugs .
- can16358p 1y agoProbably nothing initially. Then over years of us and accumulated data, people will realize that they can't game a complex system that the body needs like sleep with a simple drug, and those "healthy" wakefulness drugs will either be banned or face lots of controversy.
- A_D_E_P_T 1y agoThat's almost exactly what people said about the appetite -- about the biochemical pathways which govern hunger, which are known to be massively redundant and overlapping. But then Ozempic was released and it turned out there was a shortcut after all. Which is not to say that such things are necessarily "healthy" or desirable, just that you can't rule out that biochemically-modifiable characteristics, however complex, have "one simple trick!" you can use to attain a desired end.
- can16358p 1y agoAnd exactly as I said, Ozempic does more harm in the long run.
- drgiggles 1y agoThere are mountains of data that show it actually has long term benefits beyond weight loss (beyond even the obvious health markers that improve due to losing weight). I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the majority of the population ends up taking next gen drugs in this space, most of them purely for longevity.
- immibis 1y agoReminds me of the alleged neurological benefits from use of hallucinogenics - but they're still banned.
- jobs_throwaway 1y agosource?
- mwigdahl 1y agoProof? Doesn't need to be specific -- a general study showing higher all-cause mortality in Ozempic users compared to a control group over a long period would be just fine.
- hyghjiyhu 1y agoThat's a pretty poor comparison. A drug that makes you not need sleep is more like a drug that prevents you from starving to death without eating.
- BobaFloutist 1y agoI mean that would be TPN, where people can be kept alive indefinitely through intravenous fluids (and nutrients).