Sabertooth
Footballguy
You didn’t ask me but I’d like to chime in. I’d say no. Most people could benefit from diet and exercise but simply won’t do it. It isn’t willpower either. It’s frailty to an extend. I can power through on a diet but invariably life stress happens and I seek comfort in food.It mimics GLP-1, a hormone which suppresses appetite in the brain and alters insulin + glucagon (a hormone opposing insulin) secretion in the pancreas.
Is it your opinion that for majority of people, they can the same benefit with diet and exercise?
With Ozempic I think that food just become less of a haven for people and then they move forward. Not everybody has the same relationship with food. Some can take it or leave it. It isn’t willpower, they just don’t value it much…it’s subsistence. Others it’s more akin to an old friend.
This is where I think a drug like this comes in. I just spoke at length yesterday with my doc. I’m gonna do it I think. I’ve been fat since my girlfriend dumped my when I was in college. I’m 49 now. I’m 5’7 and 220. My blood pressure is slowly bumping up against upper normal, I’m tired and sick of beating myself up anc shaming myself for being the chubby version of myself.