[stinos]

What's striking here is that this is roughly the same outcome as essentially every other diet (with the intent of losing weight) out there. It's just more expensive. And possibly more hyped.

[blindriver]

It's not hyped. It's the most effective way I've seen the people around me lose weight. Some of them have lost a tremendous amount of weight very quickly.

But a know a couple of them that went off it and the weight came back pretty quickly. It really is just a suppression of hunger, nothing more than that.

[hamandcheese]

> It really is just a suppression of hunger, nothing more than that.

It is actually a lot more than that. Many people on Ozempic report better impulse control (food or otherwise). Many stop or significantly reduce alcohol intake. It seems that gut hormones are linked to reward pathways in the brain.

[sixtyj]

It can be hyped because jabs bring immediate results. And it can be prescribed by almost every doctor so number of people who can report is big, and therefore visible results can be further disseminated (hyped).

But… treatment is working.

Question is at what cost.

If something is too good to be true, one has to ask what is behind it. But perhaps it is a similar situation to when antibiotics were invented.

[mgraczyk]

And it works much better for most people

[nostrebored]

Yeah I think this is the missing piece. Same impact as dieting but with higher adherence and duration is a huge win.

[tartoran]

> And it works much better for most people

I thing it takes less effort to be effective but it has pretty bad side effects.

[geraldwhen]

Diet is the food you eat. If you change the food you eat, you’ve changed your diet.

Any attempt at a temporary food change is already a failure for long term health.