I wonder if people are just losing weight and feeling better about their bodies. So while they are not depressed about their weight, they don’t cope with alcohol or other drugs.
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It’s definitely more than that. Some people get a sense of well-being and compare it to an antidepressant or anxiolytic. Some people just lose the craving to drink. It’s cut back on the amount of weed I smoke, I just don’t feel the need as much. This is all independent of body image.
That's interesting. I knew it caused appetite suppression, but i didn't realize it dulls other areas as well.
Yep, I have C-PTSD and I’m being treated, but starting Semaglutide suddenly drained all the power out of my physical anxiety, It’s a bit amazing.
Other Interesting notes:
- improved sense of smell (I am smelling plants and grasses I haven’t smelled since childhood).
- Horny? Horny. Oh yes.
Seems to me it might be releasing you from the grip of addiction. Not to say you were bad off or anything. I think everyone has that demon for some things. Food is a big one, obviously.
They aren't not drinking just drinking less. You get really full 1 beer feels like 3 in your stomach.
Ozempic shrinks the stomach.
well I mean are they drinking less than they used to do, or are they drinking less than the average person? (sorry, I know I could just read the article myself, putting kids to bed)
edit: they're drinking less than they themselves used to do
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Besides helping with addictions, it also seems to help with dementia, as well as a bunch of other things.
It's a miracle drug, that should be available cheaply to everyone, but so far it's only for rich people.
I would really hesitate calling it a miracle drug as there are documented side-effects and side-effects yet to be fully understood after long-term use.
Additionally while GLP-1 can reduce caloric intake, it doesn't actually fix the poor dietary choices that got you there in the first place. Like a smoker people will misconstrue having a low BMI with being overall healthy, even though there could be a host of macro and micro-nutritional deficits from fiber to omega-3's to vitamins to antioxidants, and still a relatively high consumption of processed foods with things like added sugar.
So sure it reduces the total amount of poor foods being consumed, but of course does nothing in promoting adoption of nutritionally-positive foods. In one respect, the caloric weigh-loss still is itself a net-positive, hopefully people don't end up masking or cementing their other poor eating habits as a consequence.
Have you taken it?
It absolutely reduces craving for l sorts of "bad food".
Try it before being a doomsayer.
No I stimulate GLP-1 the good old fashioned way, by eating a balanced diet.
Not doomsaying. Turns out I'm simply echoing what experts have already said:
It’s also important to remember weight is only one part of the health equation. If you suppress your appetite but maintain a diet high in ultra-processed foods low in micronutrients, you could lose weight but not increase your actual nourishment. So support to improve dietary choices is needed, regardless of medication use or weight loss, for true health improvements.
Note, read this article in full as it strikes a good balance of caution between recognizing the potential of drugs like ozempic but also looking at the bigger picture.
God damn you sound like a moronic Luddite who thinks Gatorade is what plants crave.
I see you're using personal attacks to substitute a lack of substantive rebuttal; perhaps this is a reflection of your own personal insecurities?
Considering I'm pro-vaccine and actually generally pro-AI (probably unpopular in these parts?) in the same way I would be pro-printing press in terms of the liberation of knowledge and potential of the masses, no, I don't think I'm being an anti-tech Luddite.
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