I mean come up with a pill that changes your eating habits and doesn't just repress them. Don't think anyone's got close to that yet.
In the meantime overweight people are going to take what they can get.
In the meantime overweight people are going to take what they can get.
So GLP1 gene therapy (if it ever gets here) might be the most reasonable way to achieve this, and might be the safest we've ever seen so far outside of maybe brain control.
> In the meantime overweight people are going to take what they can get.
100%. And AFAIK GLP1s are some of the safest we've seen so far, and much more effective than "eat less and move more" (as true as that may be).
Up until now we say "no, fuck it" after a few decades of having the thing widely available. My point is wether we should shortcut the cycle and so no _before_ doing the society wide trial and having to fight for decades to have it stop.
> In the meantime overweight people are going to take what they can
Most don't take anything right now
I don't think I've seen anybody tweaking out for a fix of ozempic, though please feel free to inform me if addiction is an actual side effect that I've not heard of.
My point is we still know very little about long term effects, and in particular about what happens when the brain's reward centers are affected at scale (for a diversity of people) + for years.
Yet we're already going down the path of the "miracle drug" [0] and that freaks me out.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Drug-Crystal-Meth-ebook/dp/B0...