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The Risk Too Many People Are Taking With Ozempic
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or they cause gastrointestinal conditions in these people, resulting in weight loss (and malnutrition) that is a symptom of the new problem rather than the drug itself. If you don't have GLP-1 problems, then GLP-1 is not a solution, and dieting will be effective.
The entire point of glp1 is to prescribe when dieting isn't effective.
You mean when people refuse to change their diets and restrict caloric intake.
Have you read any of the other comments here? People aren't just "refusing" to change their diets. I'm not going to type my response again but see my comment here. Or maybe this comment by someone else. Or maybe this one. The point is that when 20+% of the population are afflicted with something, it's not a problem of them "refusing" to fix it themselves. It's a systemic issue.