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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the long term safety of these drugs? Do we even know? I just don’t think pharmaceuticals are the key to health, lifestyle and diet is a more difficult but proven solution. [/quote]

Lifestyle and diet are essentially proven advice failures at this point. If you are counseling lifestyle and diet as the sole key to long-term health for obese people, you are flat-out helping your clients have shorter lifespans and likely also setting them up for severe psychological harm.

If doctors were hawking cures for literally any other disease that had a 95% failure rate, we would be bringing them before medical boards for fraud and harm. But that’s what happens for obesity regularly and it is instead a rapacious multi-billion dollar industry. You see elements of that here in DCUM — look how panicked and angry the personal trainers and “diet counselors” of DCUM are about the existence of this class of drugs. Never mind that these folks have been giving failing advice for decades. [/quote]

If there’s a 95% failure rate for lifestyle and diet, what is the failure rate for semi-glutides? Can people who are size 28 expect to lose weight and keep it off? Is it a no-brainer to take the drugs?[/quote]

The long-term failure rate is not yet know, but based on the data of the past ten years or so with diabetic patients, it’s likely far, far better than 95%. There are several studies. [/quote]

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