Gym on Yik Yak | I don’t understand why people are so opposed to GLP-1 medication to treat obesity. This is as close as we’re ever going to get to miracle technology

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Gym 19w

I don’t understand why people are so opposed to GLP-1 medication to treat obesity. This is as close as we’re ever going to get to miracle technology

Anonymous 19w

I'm all for GLP-1, but there is definitely a reason to be skeptical. Capitalism will definitely try to turn it into a "subscribe to stay skinny" type of drug. It should be a way to get healthy but not the way to stay healthy.

Anonymous 19w

i just think it should be studied more before giving it to the masses. we have no idea the long term ramifications of these medications

Anonymous 19w

Decreased bone density? Malnutrition?? You’re literally screwing with your endocrine system and hormones, never a good idea. There is no free lunch and there never will be. This is not “miracle technology”. Eat less, move more. That is all that’s needed. GLP-1s are for those with little discipline and drive.

Anonymous 19w

GLP1 causes early onset severe osteoporosis. You lose weight but you also lose muscle- it’s literally aging you years and years. Why take a medication for a problme that can be solved naturally

Anonymous 19w

It's become such a trend that the people who need the medication aren't able to get it and prices are being jacked up.

Anonymous

#1 19w

Definitely bc we’ve only been using them for 21 years 🙄

Anonymous

#3 19w

Literally. Like how long term is long term? Nothing has popped up in 21 years. I’m not waiting 50 years to use them. I’m using them now because obesity will kill me or make my life dramatically worse.

Anonymous

#2 19w

If you have to stay on them forever, then you have to stay on them forever. Just like every single medication that isn’t an antibiotic. I’m not a big pharma boot licker but like, I don’t want to be fat anymore and I’m not willing to spend the rest of my life measuring chopped meat on a scale just to maintain. I’m going to use the medicine.

Anonymous

#2 19w

Also some of the data we have from retatrutide usage shows that a very large percentage of people who stopped using them continued to lose weight even 24 months later. So maybe we won’t have to be on them forever?

Anonymous

OP 19w

They’ve been approved for weight loss since 2014, and when someone follows their doctor’s guidance on diet, exercise, dosing, and duration, they can be used safely. It depends on the person, but they are generally used for 6-24 months.

Anonymous

#7 19w

Malnutrition??? I guess if you’re eating like zero protein at all, then it’s possible. But nobody who’s eating enough with any variety is getting malnourished. As for loss of bone density, losing weight by any method does that because your skeleton has less weight stimulating it. Obviously there’s never a free lunch, but the whole point of the drugs is that they’re supposed to make it a lot easier to eat less for people who can’t eat less by themselves.