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> doesn’t sound like a sustainable lifetime solution

Would you same the same thing about insulin or statins or even caffeine? Why couldn’t something like Ozempic be something you take long term?



Because it has many bad side effects and it's only treating the symptom, when the real problem is eating too much? Should we keep medicating people for damage that they're continuing to do to themselves willingly?

With regards to caffeine, as a doctor would you prescribe lifetime energy drinks to people who intentionally don't sleep enough?

Insulin is totally different because if you're diabetic and you don't take it, you die. There's no cure for diabetes, so there's no other option but to take it for the rest of your life.

But if you've lost weight (either with ozempic or not), it's possible to not be obese again, you're totally in control of what you put in your mouth. It feels really weird to me to keep medicating people forever when there are well understood ways to manage your weight.

I think it's probably a great solution to help people who have lost control of their weight and need to get back on track. But using it to compensate for an unhealthy lifestyle going forward just seems like bad health policy.




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