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Nah, you'll just be on it for the rest of your life. Drug companies prefer chronic illnesses since they cannot be cured, and recipients take the drug for life. All these hormones (GLP, testosterones, hrt) will need to be taken forever. Very few people come off GLP-1 and keep weight off.




But how many of those people would have ever lost the weight in the first place without GLP-1?

I mean, obesity is a chronic illness, so is hypogonadism. If your balls don't work they don't work.

Chronic illnesses require chronic medication. The same is true even WITHOUT the medication. If you're obese and want to lose the weight, you need to manage your diet and exercise. Forever. Until the day you die. You can't ever stop that or you'll be obese again.

Some things just don't have one-time solutions, and that's okay.



> Drug companies prefer chronic illnesses

Gilead has made bank on Solvadi, a drug that cures a previously-chronic disease [1].

> Very few people come off GLP-1 and keep weight off

Rebound can be close to 100% if you’re severely obese, but for most people it’s much less [2]. (Everyone I know who was taking it two years ago is off it, and they eat and exercise healthier than they did.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35441470/




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