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by glp1guide 3y ago
> This makes me wonder whether a piece of installable software that 'suppresses appetite' for computer/phone use might someday become widespread. Yeah -- I think if we can get a better grasp on how the reward systems of th
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by glp1guide 3y ago
Yup. This is what's more likely to happen, a huge dip in profits for companies making addictive food. Scott Galloway has been surmising this from the rooftops for a while now.
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by glp1guide 3y ago
Well you could consider these drugs life-saving -- it's just over a different time frame.
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by glp1guide 3y ago
So I also agree on this take, but it's diametrically opposed to another view, that the processed food industry will suffer greatly. The drugs are appetite suppressants, I personally lean on the side that the companies making junk food
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by glp1guide 3y ago
Taxpayers already are -- see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39350390 > Already, seniors make up 26.6 percent of the people who have been prescribed these and other GLP-1 agonists, including Ozempic, since 2018,
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by glp1guide 3y ago
Appreciate the links, going to dig in -- thank you!
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by glp1guide 3y ago
Ah small correction here: Ozempic isn't insulin -- it's a GLP1 Receptor Agonist[0]. While the companies that make these kinds of drugs do make Insulin (for example IIRC that's now Novo Nordisk got it's start), that&#x2
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by glp1guide 3y ago
Yeah, appetite suppressants can only do so much, and if you don't change your eating habits/what you buy while you're on the drug, it seems that many people regain weight quite fast when off of it. That said, studies on wei
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by glp1guide 3y ago
> Already, seniors make up 26.6 percent of the people who have been prescribed these and other GLP-1 agonists, including Ozempic, since 2018, according to a report from Truveta, which draws data from a large network of health-care system
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by glp1guide 3y ago
Sorry if this is a silly question, but goes GLP-1 gene therapy exist yet? I've been doing a ton of fact findin on GLP-1 recently and absolutely have not come across this. The thing is, there's the main ingredients (semaglutide&#