Ozempic is the drug of the hour. Along with the dubious cohort of other brand names for GLP-1 analogs it is the darling of the lose weight with no otherwise visible effort crowd. It does work, after a fashion, to reduce weight which in turn can provide other benefits, despite some alarming potential side-effects. The drugs suppress appetite leading to an exaggerated calorie deficit eating "regimen". A regimen which means that most people will follow some form of the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned Standard American Diet. Which bears the extremely appropriate acronym SAD. In udder woids they will most likely eat, and drink, as they have been eating and drinking carbage saturated junk for decades, just less of it, a lot less.
To say that the SAD is nutritionally deficient would be a mega-exaggerated understatement. Its extreme anti-nutritional nature is in large part responsible for the increasingly obese and sick U.S. population. Losing weight while eating garbage is very far indeed from a wise strategy. Just plain stupid in fact. This Ozempic fueled weight loss will likely have little to no positive effect on our country's excremental health status. It will probably worsen it since when the GLP-1 pills are stopped, the weight rebound will be severe and rapid. Back to square one, or even before it, unless the pills are taken in virtual perpetuity. And since no long term studies of the effects of these drugs has yet been undertaken, frickety-frack knows what horrors may lie in wait for long term users.
If you are taking a GLP-1, you are the test subject. But hey don't sweat it. We can always trust big pharma to have our best interests at heart, right?
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