I thought it was extremely obvious that these weight loss drugs would have serious side effects. They’re all meant for something else but that something else is usually life-threatening so you’re much more willing to put up with more serious effects to stay alive. This also ignores the fact that, like many other serious drugs, you are messing with biological processes that aren’t so easy to fix (steroids are the other common culprit, destroying mens hormone levels and production) and thus shouldn’t be taken like candy. It’s laziness, and I’d bet well over 95% of cases could be solved with quality eating habits and movement exercise.
All this ignores the obvious issues with big pharma being supervillains, so double all the prior issues and add this in.
The other thing is that the OG weight loss claims were fairly unimpressive when it was originally marketed solely as a diabetic drug 1st to control blood sugars with some weight loss secondary benefits.
IIRC, your average fatty only lost 5 lbs or so on the drug in the original literature. Of course that's an average, so individuals will have varying results. But the promise of 5 lbs isn't really worth unending your life over.
I thought it was extremely obvious that these weight loss drugs would have serious side effects. They’re all meant for something else but that something else is usually life-threatening so you’re much more willing to put up with more serious effects to stay alive. This also ignores the fact that, like many other serious drugs, you are messing with biological processes that aren’t so easy to fix (steroids are the other common culprit, destroying mens hormone levels and production) and thus shouldn’t be taken like candy. It’s laziness, and I’d bet well over 95% of cases could be solved with quality eating habits and movement exercise.
All this ignores the obvious issues with big pharma being supervillains, so double all the prior issues and add this in.
The other thing is that the OG weight loss claims were fairly unimpressive when it was originally marketed solely as a diabetic drug 1st to control blood sugars with some weight loss secondary benefits.
IIRC, your average fatty only lost 5 lbs or so on the drug in the original literature. Of course that's an average, so individuals will have varying results. But the promise of 5 lbs isn't really worth unending your life over.