I thought this was a joke at first until I read the full article. These new drugs will further destroy society.
I read Medscape propoganda posts to stay on top of what is advised (usually it the opposite of what a holistic nutritional professional would do).
According to this Medscape article, new weight loss and exercise enhancement drugs are planned to be on the market within the next four years.
Here is the headline
Diet and Exercise in a Pill Are Real: How Mimetics Work
Sari Harrar
March 14, 2024
Just that headline should make you very concerned.
I will provide my comments below each section of the article I included here, but I encourage you to read the full article. (anything in bold is by me)
These "have your cake and eat it, too" drugs aren't on the market for human use — but they're edging closer.
The National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutical industry are taking notice, anteing up big research dollars.
We will see a significant profit for weight loss and exercise enhancement drugs.
The food and medical industry has created a population addicted to refined and processed junk food that they cannot stop eating.
Why should they? All they need to do is take pills for their HTN, type 2 diabetes, and so forth.
Now, enter drugs so that you can continue to support the big junk food industry. Take one pill for weight maintenance or loss and one for exercise.
The commercial appeal is unavoidable: Mimetics have the potential to help non-dieters avoid weight gain and allow dieters to build and/or preserve more calorie-burning muscle — a boon because losing weight can reduce muscle, especially with rapid loss.
So, instead of eating healthy and exercising, take more pills on top of the ones you are already prescribed.
How do these drugs work? What's their downside? Like the "miracle" glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) weight-loss drugs that are now ubiquitous, are mimetics an effective pharmaceutical way to replicate two of society's biggest lifestyle sticking points — diet and exercise?
Diets work," said George Roth, PhD, of GeroScience, Inc., in Pylesville, MD, who began studying CR at the National Institute on Aging in the 1980s with Ingram. "But it's hard to sustain."
Actually, diets do not work.
Lifestyle and dietary changes do.
The goal is to learn how to eat healthy foods for life to promote optimal wellness. A diet is something that you go on, lose weight, then go off and gain all the weight back.
This is because you did not learn anything about eating healthy, such as from programs that have you count points or all your food comes delivered in boxes.
Physical activity builds muscle and fitness, helps keeps bones strong, sharpens thinking and memory, guards against depression, and helps discourage a slew of health concerns from weight gain and high blood pressure to diabetes and heart disease. Muscle becomes more dense, more powerful and may even burn more calories, said Burris.
Yes, exercise has many health benefits. But let’s ignore all those amazing benefits and have you pop a pill instead!
The problem: That pesky part about actually moving. Fewer than half of American adults get recommended amounts of aerobic exercise and fewer than a quarter fit in strength training, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Wow!! That “pesky part about moving?” Really?
What I see is that more drugs and more junk food are part of the process to get more and more people dumbed down, sitting behind their screens all day, not moving, and getting addicted to their devices.
That statement in the article is horrible.
It further encourages people to do nothing (which I think is wanted so that the masses become even more complacent and lazy).
Exercise mimetics like SLU-PP-332 might one day be given to people alongside weight-loss drugs, such as Mounjaro (tirzepatide) or Ozempic (semaglutide) to prevent muscle loss. "SLU-PP-332 doesn't affect hunger or food intake the way those drugs do," he said. "It changes muscle."
Again, they are proposing one pill for weight loss and one for exercise.
There is no need to walk the dog, get fresh air, or pick up a weight, and there is no need to stop eating junk food.
With these drugs, you can sit and eat all day!
Doesn’t that sound wonderful?
That sounds like torture to me.
Mimetics may one day help older adults and people with muscle disorders rebuild muscle even when they cannot exercise and to delay a range of age-related diseases without onerous dieting. "The chance to intervene and provide a longer healthspan and lifespan — that's been the moon shot," Roth said.
This is where the drugs may have a purpose. Imagine people in wheelchairs and with a disability or severe illness who have complete muscle atrophy.
But do you think that medical professionals will target that smaller subset mentioned above, or do you think they will hand out these pills like candy to every overweight person who walks through their door?
Guarente noted that CR (caloric restriction) mimetics may work best for people who aren't carrying extra pounds but want the health benefits of slashing calories without sacrificing meals and snacks.
Again, there is no need to reduce those large portions of fries and soda, and there is no need to stop eating non-stop all day- just take this pill!
What a colossal profit advantage for the medical, pharmaceutical, and junk food industries!
Evans sees only positives. "Our environment is designed to keep people sitting down and consuming high-calorie foods," he said. "In the absence of people getting motivated to exercise — and there's no evidence the country is moving in that direction on its own — a pill is an important option to have."
Really, only positives from taking a drug to prevent you from eating healthy and another drug to prevent you from having to workout?
Evans states that since no one wants to exercise, we must give them a pill.
Maybe we should ask why fewer and fewer people are getting daily exercise and daily movement.
What about you?
Would you rather live a life eating junk food and taking a pill to avoid the negative outcomes?
Would you rather take a pill versus going for a hike, walking, doing a gym workout, or playing a sport?
By the way, if these drugs do come to market in the next few years, I will be curious to see what the side effects are.
The way I see it, these drugs will not help society but will further add to its destruction.
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This is NOT information allopathic practitioners will share with you.
Wow. A pill for diet and exercise. Right up their with building "immunity" by destroying your health with vaccines.
Sloth and Gluttony are sins for a reason.