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Re:GLP-1 drugs led to weight loss and reversed depression-li... by ajross on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:21AM (#48704315)
> What’s more sustainable, changing your lifestyle to maintain the weight you lost, or being beholden to taking a drug to maintain that same lifestyle change for a hope at maintenance?

That's some pretty... charged language. But even so: the drug, clearly. People take drugs reliably as a matter of empirical fact. People likewise emphatically don't "change their lifestyles" as a general rule. If they did we wouldn't be talking about this new drug, would we?

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Re:GLP-1 drugs led to weight loss and reversed depression-li... by hack1312 on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:24AM (#48704333)
It’s reality.

People take drugs if they can afford them; will GLP-1’s be available dirt-cheap to the masses or limited to those fortunate enough to have health insurance.

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Re:GLP-1 drugs led to weight loss and reversed depression-li... by crooked-v on Sunday June 28, 2026 @05:02AM (#48705613)
They're incredibly cheap to manufacture. Everyone and their dog will be able to afford an infinite supply the second the patents expire, and black market supply is already cheap even with the extra overhead of it being illegal and impossible to market properly.
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Re:GLP-1 drugs led to weight loss and reversed depression-li... by estearum on Sunday June 28, 2026 @10:21AM (#48707531)
Yes, of course they will. Is this a serious question? It will take at most twenty years due to patent expiration.
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