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ENCmd's avatar

Another way to kill off seniors and enrich pharma. Lord have mercy. WEFers are rejoicing.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

The only positive here is that diet is being considered. With GLP1s alone, we will see more harm than good. Back in 2023, I wrote how the DASH diet was just as effective as GLP1s — while being safer and cheaper as well. Hopefully the DASH diet will be tried extensively before these drugs are implemented: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-hidden-struggle-in-health-care

But overall agree: if this is just a way to get people, then its horrible. Ironically, GLP1s shouldn't be pushed on seniors, but if done, then you're right — this will harm seniors :(

TheAngryHippy's avatar

Have you seen the side effects people are suffering from these drugs?

Brogan12's avatar

And yet it is the people who get in line...just like SHEEP. No one is putting a gun to their head either. I am blown away by the amount of DRUGS America takes for its tiny size (345 million on a planet of 8.2 BILLION). 2/3s of PHARMA drugs consumed are in AMERICA

John Klar's avatar

Apparently, they have new microdose versions that have fewer side effects...

Letsrock's avatar

MAYBE STOP SCREWING AROUND W OUR FOOD!!!

Lynn Mathias's avatar

Oh dear. Seems like Dr. Oz is up to his old tricks involving drugs. The only side effect of GLP-1 that I saw mentioned in the article involved muscle density, while I've read that it has many more side-effects, including stomach paralysis and kidney damage. If you're going to demand strict cost-benefit analyses of vaccines, maybe do the same here? And while we're at it, can we be brutally honest about human nature? This drug addresses almost the entire panoply of mortal sins (gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, maybe even lust) yet is being analyzed as if it were to be used and prescribed by robots. Medicare may have strict limits on its use but experience tells us that within 24 hours both users and prescribers will have figured out how to game these rules. It will filter from Medicare to Medicaid and finally become a mandated insurance benefit; the entire country will be like the morons in Hollywood making their thin selves thinner; manufacturers will find new uses for it; half our GNP will be GLP (which would be a good slogan for the opposition); and people who are fat because of Pepsi and Twinkies and the screens they stare at will still be living on Pepsi and Twinkies and staring at screens. Oh joy! Novo Nordisk is probably already working on drugs to increase muscle mass and improve our intelligence so we don't have to lift a finger to make our own lives worth living. Why is this seen as a leap forward into anything good?

Lisa Stinebuck-Jones's avatar

These GLP drugs are NOT good! I have diabetes and my dr prescribed them to me. In 4 months my Pancrease no longer makes enzymes to absorb vitamins from food. DO NOT TAKE IT! For your health. The Pig Enzymes I have to take cost me 4k a month now. Please, I BEG you - DO NOT DO IT! 💯

Dee Smith's avatar

This is not good news. The government-led low-fat craze led to this problem, and now the government is going to fix it with a pill?

Chris Arp's avatar

Disappointing!

Brogan12's avatar

Its JUST surreal how people never learn. The amount of adverse events and consequences we will be seeing over the coming years with such a PUSH on these drugs will be over the top!

Paul Fronapfel, MD's avatar

Obesity is a a condition, one of choices and consequences. The disease is that we think obesity should be fixed with pharmaceutical interventions instead of diet and habit changes.

Jamie's avatar

Wouldnt a quick pill to lose weight just cause people to think they can eat even more junk? Which would cause all kinds of additional problems? Seems crazy. I dont want to pay for people to eat more. Insane.

jan's avatar

This does not address the cost of eating whole foods! Seniors are eating processed foods because that's all they can afford. This is a bandaid for poor eating habits that some are trapped into

Craig Neal's avatar

Again, MAHA is doing such great things on the farming and food side for the most part. Why are you aligned with the Republicans and now weight loss drugs? Please!

jan's avatar

Oh please with the partisanship

Kathy Boston's avatar

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Diamond's avatar
5mEdited

To cause obesity in laboratory mice all that is needed is MSG. It causes obscenely massive obesity. McDonald's is the world's largest purveyor of MSG. Duh

John Day MD's avatar

Junk food, made to be addictive, with chemical additives, but no nutrition, is where the cigarette companies moved after they lost the regulatory war on cigarettes.

The smokers mostly died off over time.

Would it be the same with the elimination of effective subsidies for junk food, outlawing advertising for it, and heavy taxation?

Michael's avatar

Take away the inticements; Sweet, Salty, Sticky, or Crunchy, maybe