Link Roundup: When Will the GLP-1 Hype Bubble Burst? "Doing your own research," why sugar doesn’t "feed" cancer, and more. Welcome to another installment of the Rethinking Wellness link roundup! Every other week, I’m offering a small collection of links from around the internet that are relevant to the conversations we have here, along with some quick takes and occasional deeper dives for paid subscribers. This time it’s just one very deep (or at least very long) dive attempting to answer the question: when will the GLP-1 hype bubble burst? Here are some pieces that got me thinking this month. I generally enjoyed all of these, but links are not endorsements of every single detail in the piece or everything the writer ever wrote. Doing Your Own Research? When Will the GLP-1 Hype Bubble Burst? I came across a recent article claiming that Ozempic might actually be something like a cure-all, despite the fact that other things positioned as a panacea usually turn out to be snake oil. I thought this article was interesting in an alarming kind of way, in that we as a society are encouraging people to take a drug that clearly affects brain functions without fully understanding what it does. I'm also very skeptical of what the author is saying because, as he points out in the first paragraph of his article (and then promptly ignores), no drugs developed to date have such a positively skewed risk-benefit profile. I wonder what your thoughts are in regard to Medic GLP Support-1 agonists as the newest ‘wonder drug’ hype. How long do you think before we start seeing the other side of the risk profile for them, and MedicGLP Support then how long until we as a society admit to ourselves we were wrong?
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