[PeterPrinciple]

This discovery may pave the way

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not a lot of confidence there compared to the headline.

[Bob434]

[[but also enhance kidney function]]

Interesting!

[monkeyshine]

There are already a lot of compounds that boost energy and reduce appetite. Most of them are no good for you.

[Tell It Right]

Boosts energy, brings some weight loss, no side effects.

Sounds like a description of sex. LOL

[logi_cal869]

Wow. A ‘cure’ for “hand to mouth disease.”

In a pill.

That’s sorta like giving a pill to drug addicts to further rationalize their behavior.

Nothing bad will happen.

Assuredly.

/s

[stevio]

Here we go again.

[Sequoyah101]

There is too much money in Type II for someone not to develop a maintenance "cure". GLP-1 type agonists come close. The pharma goal is renewable income and not an actual cure. Give them the razor and sell them the blades kind of strategy.

I suspect that many of the side effects of GLP-1 are self inflicted or in the prescription. Self-inflicted by not properly ramping up to dose or sharing drugs which appears to be common for the weight loss use crowd. Prescription problems by either a 1 mg or 2 mg maintenance dose instead of the smaller 0.5 mg or even the starter 0.25 mg dose. Often doctors, acting according to the general recommendation, immediately ramp up to the 1 mg dose after 6 weeks of the 0.25 and 0.5 mg starter pack doses not pausing on the lower dose to see what it does before going to the 1 mg. In some cases the smaller dose works just fine without too many or any side effects.

Individual mileage may vary of course.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

there are currently no clinically approved ways to safely increase energy expenditure

Exercise, maybe? Nah, that's crazy talk.