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I can’t help but think all the tangentially positive stuff coming out about Ozempic is just marketing.
Being obese is just really fucking destructive to the body, so a drug that helps with that will have a lot of positive effects.
I mean it’s an absurdly good medicine, and the first time we’ve had a harmless way to prevent overeating, which causes incalculable misery.
Someone described it as turning off “food noise,” so you’re not constantly hungry. Now we need a way to put exercise in a pill.
I think you've hit the nail on the head... how much of these "benefits" are just natural outcomes from losing weight? When the body isn't fighting all the extra weight, it can naturally heal itself more efficiently.
There's no reason we can't do the muscle twitch machine from the matrix
Chili pepper mint nose spray
How about some fucking self control.
Not everyone's brain works like yours does. How about you try being less of a callous dick?
Clearly doesn't work.
Neurological issues can't be helped. Like ADHD I could do some things that sucked all day every day, but checking the mail? Nah. Mowing the lawn, why? Like I have to do laundry for societal reasons. But I needed help to do the boring day to day shit that keeps you a "functioning member of society".
A lot of people have self control in one way but not another. For me, I became diabetic because my ADHD is like "meh, you're not hungry, no need to eat." Then I'd get lightheaded and "oh shit, I need to eat or I'll die, put quick calories in me NOW" causing my blood sugar to spike, then it'd normalize, then drop too far before I spiked it again. I never got fat, so in your mind I had self control when I really didn't. After research, meds and some talk with the doctor my diabetes is under control, and I'm eating healthier because berries are just as easy a snack as say a pretzel snack pack, or easier than ramen.
I'm betting there's some part of your life where you're not in control, so don't be so quick to judge on someone else's struggle.
Ozempic has reduced the amount of manipulative marketing you see, too, and also your favorite dead childhood pet is somehow alive again and waiting at your back door thanks to Ozempic!
Is Ozempic what caused the Pet Sematery?
It is in the new A24 2027 reboot
Fyi the patent on GLP-1 has expired and there's GLP-1 meds other than ozempic and wegovy rn
The stuff about it helping with various addiction situations is real. But I don’t suspect it’s a good idea to use it off label for that. Just that it’s one of the many side effects.
I feel the same but then again I did about statins and eye surgery.