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Re:Ozempic Can Cause Major Loss of Muscle Mass and Reduce Bo... by zzzeek on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:00PM (#37559611)
i think the parent's point would be that most people can achieve all those things without using a drug (the cholesterol and BP parts are often chronically high for non-obese people but there are other medications for those things that target them more directly)
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Re:Ozempic Can Cause Major Loss of Muscle Mass and Reduce Bo... by aantix on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:21PM (#37559933)
>can achieve

The longterm success number for those that lose significant weight and keep it off for many years, are abysmal.

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Re:Ozempic Can Cause Major Loss of Muscle Mass and Reduce Bo... by zzzeek on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:03PM (#37562019)
sure, but my anecdotal hearsay unsubstantiated information on this is that people who are only a little bit over their ideal weight are using it so that they dont even need to apply modest efforts at staying healthy. People who are chronically morbidly obese are likely better off with the bariatric surgery approach.
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Re:Ozempic Can Cause Major Loss of Muscle Mass and Reduce Bo... by aantix on Monday September 18, 2023 @06:20PM (#37562909)
There’s a huge cohort in between those two states.
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