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The majority is gaining literal years of healthy lifespan. It would take a lot of damage to even approach this gain for the average person. Like we used to do v
by daedrdev 1y ago
The majority is gaining literal years of healthy lifespan. It would take a lot of damage to even approach this gain for the average person. Like we used to do very invasive and impactful gastric surgery to try and get weight loss and nobody batted an eye, no?
- FollowingTheDao 1y ago> The majority is gaining literal years of healthy lifespan You’re saying this like it’s true already. Let’s give it 10 years.
- malfist 1y ago> You’re saying this like it’s true already Because it is true already? You take an obese person who has a lower quality of life because of their obesity and give them a drug that helps them lose that weight and keep it if, they're literally gaining function and a higher quality of life from it. Today.
- FollowingTheDao 1y agoPhen-fen helped people lose weight.
- malfist 1y agoYeah, and? Fen-phen was a drug controversially approved in April 1996 and withdrew from market September 1997. GLP-1s aren't remotely similar. Their approval was 20 years ago and have been in used by diabetics since.