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I was reading this, and gosh this would be a game-changer in the Sexual Market.
New Drugs Could Help Treat Obesity. Could They End the Stigma, Too? (Published 2021)
The hope is that new treatments will encourage people to think of obesity as a chronic disease, like high blood pressure or diabetes.
www.nytimes.com
... Ms. Greenleaf, an administrator at a charter school in Washington, D.C., participated in a clinical trial for semaglutide, which is a new type of obesity drug, known as incretins.
Over the course of the 68-week study, Ms. Greenleaf slowly lost 40 pounds.
Until then, she had always believed that she could control her weight if she really tried.
“I thought I just needed more motivation,” she said. But when she took semaglutide, she said that “immediately, the urge to eat just dissipated.”