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Most medications have negative side effects because otherwise our bodies would already have whatever changes they make through evolution. My personal theory (ba
by radial_symmetry 11mo ago
Most medications have negative side effects because otherwise our bodies would already have whatever changes they make through evolution. My personal theory (based on nothing but my own intuition) is that GLP-1s are an adaptation to the modern world that evolution hasn't caught up with yet.
- ammon 11mo agoAnd we know what the adaptation is: calorie constraint. We evolved in a calorie constrained environment. We don't live in one now. Our set point for desire to eat is clearly too high. None of this means that glp-1 inhibitors don't have other side effects, of course.
- lm28469 11mo ago> Most medications have negative side effects because otherwise our bodies would already have whatever changes they make through evolution. That's not what evolution is, at all
- dillydogg 11mo agoThis sounds like the argument during the pandemic, "If masks work, then why didn't we evolve permanent masks? Checkmate atheists." Though I do understand the impulse that evolution is working towards some unknowable perfection because of how I was taught evolution during high school, that is, of course, not how it works.
- viking123 11mo agolol