One fascinating consequence of GLP-1s/Ozempic:
For decades, people said that big pharma would never release actually effective obesity drugs because they’d lose too much money from downstream chronic disease treatment.
We’re seeing almost the exact opposite.
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It was always the dumbest thinking just like they think they won’t come up with a cure for cancer for the same reason.
Because maturing is ditching the “everything is a conspiracy by big corporations bro!”, and realizing that everything in life is just people figuring things out and making money off of it.
Nothing sinister, maybe morally dubious or wrong, but not demonic
It serves as an example for the power of competition.
Even if there were risks of a monopolist/cartel withholding treatment, there’s enormous profit from doing this as a single company, and the incentives are similar for all other companies.
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Idk likely just like traditional dieting, if you stop taking GLP-1, MOST - read not all - will regain the weight. So you have a customer for life.
Well Ozempic will need to be taken for the rest of one’s life. Lifelong customer spending 12k a year is a way better set of margins than actually treating illnesses
There's always a way to retreat into conspiracy - i.e.he bastards created an expensive drug you have to take for life, you're basically their slave.
Ozempic doesn’t cure obesity. It’s a bandaid for a wound that requires stitches.
These same people will claim that large corporations use short term thinking and only care about making money for next quarterly earnings.
Yeah, because we can buy them from china for 1/10 the cost, and if they dont' sell them, they will lose trillions of dollars. Just because the medium-long term financial angle isn't obvious doesn't mean they are operating out of good will.
One step ahead.. they are gathering all the side effect issues of GLP and developing drugs to counteract that...
Just watch....
It wasn’t developed for that purpose and probably wouldn’t have been but started as off label prescription for this indication.
We have yet to see the long term side effects. People forget Fen-Phen was all the rage until people started dying. I have a hunch big Pharma knows exactly what it’s doing.
The worry was that they’d cure a disease that hurt long term payments from the disease.
In a world where GLP1 payments go on forever (so you keep the weight off) this isn’t an issue
This has more to do with the fact that companies that control GLP-1s don’t control everything else. There was real fear in companies with no say in the matter that GLP-1s would wipe out their business. But they couldn’t do anything to stop their release
I’m a 110% supporter of these meds. In my case, now Zepbound shots (Terzepitides). Transformative!
But I saw one contrarian Doctor say, “millions of obese people will now live decades longer instead of DYING YOUNG 
But in the very end, the End of Life care will cost $$$!
But in the very end, the End of Life care will cost $$$!
Yes because their new business model is extending human life not fighting disease. That's what they all will be shifting to. Ife extension therapies.
I saw an Eli Lilly ad on TV encouraging people to exercise. There were no drug advertisements. Just a plea to exercise for better mental health. I was stunned.
You have to keep using the thing for every. These drugs shrink fat cells but multiply the number of them. Stop using it and more fat than ever.
Except ozempic has massive side effects and long term issues.
I love how everyone was skeptical about taking vaccines but nobody asked a single question about ozempic when it came out. Says a lot about the vanity of our society. They don’t care about health.
That’s because we’re waiting for the other shoe to drop on these weight-loss drugs.
If you don’t see an epidemic on the other end of this that they’re absolutely going to capitalize on then you’re naive.
Elevate your game. Play beyond the court 
GLP-1's cause muscle loss, not just fat loss. If you stop taking the GLP-1 w/o first changing to a low-carb WOE & strength training, you'll gain back fat but not muscle. Lifetime customers, IOW.
Another fascinating consequence: Gastroparesis.
The largest barrier is patent law. 20 years of a monopoly to produce. The patent will expire in a few years & it’ll break the supply chain.
The other economic aspect that has sustained GLP-1 is that its use is encouraged for life. 20% of people who stop using it get big again
I'm sure they figured out how to program a drug to make you skinny and just as unhealthy. 
They are cashing in now knowing in the next few years AI is going to decimate their business model.
They are not structured to handle an everything is individually tailored model and that's what AI is going to bring.
And the tech companies that are going to usher that in don't
When were these drugs first discovered and their main effects known?
True. It's because the effect on the chronic disease market (and the addictive food market) is an "externality" that doesn't drive decisions in the GLP-1 business.
It's nice to have this work in our favour for a change.
