Ozempic
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The only person telling me what I should and should not be eating is my doctor. I do not believe the government should be in the doctor's office whether that be reproductive health or any other health issue. I'm not against the government issuing pamphlets on healthy eating and healthy lifestyle choices, but gross generalizations need to go, as do nanny state nagging. There are likely as many reasons for being overweight as there are numbers of people. (There was a NYT article about this not too long ago.) Warning labels based on correlations should not even be considered for food. Information labels are non-judgemental and useful. The French eat white bread, and a lot of it. Their pastries are sine qua non, cheese is consumed daily. Raw milk. A healthy, positive attitude towards food, they celebrate it. And they allow enough time in the structure of their lives for full enjoyment. The break for lunch is two hours, men, women, and children. In the US you're lucky to get half an hour. They eat later, after the day's work is over and they respect the end of the work day. In a word, they eat to live, not the other way around. We can't afford that in the US. Sad.
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KFF did a report on the costs associated with GLP-1s.
And a Reuters report about how two-thirds of people who go on the GLP-1s are not taking them after a year.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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The analysis by Prime Therapeutics, a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM), reviewed pharmacy and medical claims data for 4,255 people with commercial health plans.
Mik, you know this stuff.
What are PBMs, what do they do, how do they make their money, why do we need them, and what would be lost if we dropped them all in to a volcano?
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Good comments all around.
@Steve-Miller said in Ozempic:
Education, maybe? Perhaps, but it’s going to be mighty tough to get people to change, particularly when they’re bombarded with advertising 24/7. Equally important is that people have a right to spend their money as they please and eat what they like.
It’s complicated.
It certainly it is complicated!
Education, while needed, definitely won’t do it alone.
And no, as @wtg said, the high tech pharmaceutical solution isn’t sustainable either.
I don’t have any solutions. I haven’t figured out how to drop the weight I gained during the pandemic, and Mr SK, who exercises and eats more healthfully than most, is now pre-diabetic. So there you go.
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My guess would be that many stop because of the cost. Others stop because of side effects, some of which appear to be avoidable and others that don’t.
I also think at least some stop because they get tired of not being able to eat the way they like to eat.
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A web search lists the same reasons I did above and one more. Some people lose weight like crazy on GLP and others lose more slowly. There are generally plateaus. People who lose more slowly can get frustrated and give up.
The people who lose weight most quickly appear to be people who have a lot to lose and people with poor diets when they start. Interesting that these same people are also the ones who do well on IF routines.
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New study. Lots of good effects and also some concerns.
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No matter. It’s about to be taken off of the shortages list and very few will be able to afford it.
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I'm not sympathetic. Maybe I should be but I'm not. This drug has serious, visible negative side effects. The fact that it is the second best selling pharmaceutical is the precise reason it shows up in my phone's news feed two out of every three days without fail. The pharmaceutical industry doesn't care about anything other than buying off governments to be free of regulation and making obscene profits.
