Thanks, you've cured me.
On a realistic note I'd love you to point me towards your linkedin page or other professional portfolio that makes you qualified to warn people of the risks, more so than the medical prescribers that actually do promote the risks and benefits to patients in order to make an informed decision.
To say food is fetishised is a huge, incorrect generalisation and oversimplification of long since recognised disease. It completely ignores medical background, poverty, socioeconomics, food availability etc.
There are many reasons why ghrelin and glp-1 may be disrupted in someone who is obese and whilst simple carbs can impact on blood sugars it's very dismissive of all of the other reasons that these hormones can be disrupted which then leads to obesity.
As soon as someone pushes the anti-pharma rhetoric they've lost their side of argument. There is money involved. We live in a capitalist society. It will always pay because obesity will always be a problem because as I mentioned before there are so many reasons that aren't just simple carbs for why people end up obese, but that doesn't negate the beneficial life changing impact these medications have.
I hope you don't take paracetamol because big pharma know they can always make money off people who have headaches. It can damage your liver so better not, eh. I mean people take it all the time and it's so easy to be misused because you can pick it up at your local pharmacy, and is really easy to accidentally overdose on.
Come on, be for real.
artificially bringing health markers down which long term do not even increase your lifespan.
Please please go do some research about how the metabolism works.
Are you saying we should stay fat? What are you getting at?
I think if you assume that people are only taking this medication to increase their lifespan and not really the quality of life that they have now then this is just a further demonstration that you don't really understand obesity.
For a lot of us, the organ damage is done. We're preventing it getting worse. Except we do know that actually these medications have a positive long term impact on cardiovascular health, inflammation, autoimmunity, visceral fat and liver function, and therefore we can compare this medication to remaining obese because remaining obese does not positively benefit any of this.
We should always collect new data and it should be peer reviewed. To pretend that this is a new medication that has not already been extensively safety tested, albeit in the diabetic population, is full on head in sand. There is no evidence that shows that the risks are higher for obese people outside of the diabetic population.
If you are obese and you don't want to take these drugs then you do not have to do it.
Those of us who are taking these drugs are well aware of the clinical data available, we're aware of the age of this drug and how long it's been introduced into this population of people, we're aware of the risks to us if we remain obese and we're aware of the astronomical costs of private prescriptions for this medication.
Thanks for warning us months ago though I guess. Certainly not patronising us at all.