“This rush is eerily similar to the fen-phen craze, a temporary weight loss drug later pulled from the market for causing severe heart and lung issues.”
indeed ... i’ll never forget that ... best to wait to evaluate long-term effects of weight-loss drugs ...
and then of course, GLP-1s have one tiny little drawback aside from being exorbitantly expensive and causing a plethora of negative digestive side-effects that cause a large percentage of folks to quit taking them before a year is up, namely you have to take them the rest of your life because the minute you stop, you’ll soon gain all the lost weight back!
Why can’t people just change their eating and exercising habits during the time that they lose the initial large amount of weight and then keep up with the new habits after they go off of the drug? This is a serious question.
Obesity is an enormous problem in this country. The amount of money to pay for healthcare for the enormous number of people who have type two diabetes will not be possible for all the side effects of the obesity crisis in the future.
If it hasn't permanently, or long term paralyzed your digestive tract.
And God knows what other side effects.
Isn't that true of ALL weight loss regimens?
Not that I support these new drugs at all, as I think they're unproven long term.