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mhoye Apr 12, 2023

Reading this article about the experience of Andrea Phillips as she uses modern medicines to treat obesity: https://deusexmachinatio.com/blog/18-months-on-ozempic-or-better-living-through-chemistry

... and this phrase jumped out at me: "I know what a cup of rice looks like, and that's why calorie counting always for me worked before. That had not changed. Something else had."

I've read so many stories like this - "something happened, in my life, in my medical treatment, _something_ changed, and my relationship with (food, alcohol, whatever) changed too."

18 Months on Ozempic, or, Better Living Through Chemistry — ANDREA PHILLIPS // deus ex machinatio

Content Warning: Intentional weight loss, diet culture, needles. Hi. Hello. Hi! Let's talk biology, shall we? The drug Ozempic has been in the news a lot lately, both as the trendy new Hollywood magic skinny trick and as a medication that the vain and shallow are snatching from the hands of diabe

ANDREA PHILLIPS // deus ex machinatio

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mhoye Apr 12, 2023

An awful lot of the world's arrogance, I suspect, comes from the belief that you have a complete understanding of the mechanisms of some condition, so someone else's outcomes must be their moral choice. People talk about obesity and addiction in some iterations on this same pattern. But that "complete understanding" is just... not there. You don't have it, today nobody does. But faced with a choice between inquisitive humility and faulting others morals? One of them is easy.

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mhoye Apr 12, 2023

But the inquisitive humility path here is revealing. Anecdotes, data, I get it, but: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/

Anyone recommending "lifestyle changes" for dietary, obesity or addiction issues in modernity might as well be prescribing trepanation or leeches. There is something else happening here.

And given that we've collectively discovered three new human organs in the last decade, starting with humility and inquiry as a bedrock approach sounds more helpful than condescension or moralizing.

A Chemical Hunger – Part I: Mysteries

The study of obesity is the study of mysteries.

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Bruno Windels

@mhoye sure there's a lot we don't know, and every person is different, but I thought it's generally accepted nowadays that processed foods, refined sugar and other high-GI foods will make the population on average more obese. Especially in the NA, it's hard not to eat processed foods. Some may have been on the market since the beginning of the obsesity epidemic, but not consumed comparable quantities as today? Could be taking my own bubble truth for generally accepted truth though.