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Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by dragonwriter on Sunday July 13, 2025 @05:45PM (#44554034)
I mean roughly in reference to the underlying mechanism it directly addresses, not all the downstream effects. And even that was, admittedly, sloppy, because there's some complex feedback loops involved. I guess it would be more accurate to say it is a maintenance medicine and not a complete cure, and so stopping taking it unmasks the continuing condition that is treating.
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by JumpCrisscross on Sunday July 13, 2025 @05:49PM (#44554066)
> stopping taking it unmasks the continuing condition that is treating

Some of the prediabetics I knew who stopped taking it (N = 2) stopped being prediabetic (N = 1).

Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by AuryGlenz on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:04AM (#44557207)
I mean, yeah. You could always just lose weight and probably get out of being prediabetic.
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by JumpCrisscross on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:36AM (#44557390)
> just lose weight

This might be the left-wing analog of climate denialism.

Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by tanjtanjtanj on Monday July 14, 2025 @12:38PM (#44562151)
What does the left-wing or more broadly, political philosophy have to do with that statement?
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by AuryGlenz on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @01:10AM (#44568000)
It's not like it's impossible unmedicated. Plenty of people have and will do it. Obviously most people are unable to. I was always surprised just how few prediabetics did though.