Monday, 12 September 2022
Hijacking the brain
Weekly obesity jab halves the risk of diabetes and can spark sufficient weight loss to treat range of issues, research suggests
Patients can inject themselves with semaglutide, which works by hijacking the brain to suppress appetite and slash calorie intake.
Instead of being hijacked by cake and takeaways presumably.
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"Patients can inject themselves with semaglutide..."
...which produces the mental condition known as semaglitude. This is the slightly depressing feeling that you have just swapped one brain-hijacker for another, and paid someone to do it.
Sam - the name of the stuff is slightly depressing too. I suppose something like 'Slimmo' is too dated, but I'm sure a better name would help.
Name? How about Tono-Bungay?
dearieme - good idea, although the name reminds me of Tony Blair for some reason. One or two associations in there for me.
I'm impressed by how Liz Truss has not thrust herself into the limelight in the last few days. Imagine if the Queen had died while Mr Toni was PM. The horror!
dearieme - blimey, if she'd died during Toni's reign. Something unspeakable would have been built at least - or even worse.
Typical Pharma solution - more lucrative drugs.
A proper diet would sort out type II diabetes and obesity. It's the high carbohydrate consumption which fuels the diabetes & obesity epidemics - nearly 50% of Americans are now obese.
There's a great book out called Eat Rich, Live Long, which demolishes scientifically what we've all been told for decades about carbs, protein and fat.
But if the overweight followed the advice it offers, Pharma would not sell so many expensive drugs, so...
Ed - interesting, I see the book is by Ivor Cummins, the chap who has done some good YouTube videos on the coronavirus epidemic.
Yes, the book by Ivor Cummins. I'm trying out the recommended dietary changes - it's not difficult and already, after one week, it's made a positive difference.
But after decades of official health advice to eat a diet of lots of carbs and low fat, it's quite difficult to 'reset' my opinions to almost the opposite mix!
Ed - I've toyed with the idea for a while, but I have a similar problem - it isn't easy to reset my opinions. I'm not overweight, but a relative has been battling with diabetes and he wasn't overweight either, so that leaves me feeling I ought to make some changes.
The book explains clearly and convincingly that one may be diabetic even if not overweight. It's really worthwhile trying it for a week or two.
I've changed from muesli for breakfast to bacon & eggs (which previously I'd only eat when staying in hotels). No hunger pangs at all for hours - in fact now I usually skip lunch. I thought giving up beer and potatoes would be hard, but so far it's been easy.
Ed - I recently changed my breakfast from toast to a thin oat-based crispbread with a chunk of cheese. Lots of butter on the crispbread, so quite fatty overall. Maybe I ought to buy the book too.
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