alt Hacker News> Not really
This made me actually laugh. A drug that cures obesity and addiction alone would be a wonder drug.
This one also improves about a hundred odd immune disorders, including being a better general allergy drug than just about anything. My own extremely rare and terribly painful immune disorder is basically entirely cured by it - it completely changed my life, making even sleeping far better. But not just me, I have friends who have lifelong terrible allergies gone, lifelong pack-a-day smoking addictions completely gone, and so on...
"Not really" is truly either the most pessimistic take I've ever heard, or hopefully just completely misinformed.
> A drug that cures obesity and addiction alone would be a wonder drug.
A drug that influences a hormone causing effects on everything that hormone is involved in shouldn't be considered a wonder drug, it should be expected functionality.
It's only a wonder drug that does all these miraculous things if you think GLP-1 is only a weight management hormone. It's not, and you should expect effects anywhere it is involved in. A short list of tissues we know GLP-1 is involved in processes is:
- heart - tongue - adipose tissue - muscles - bones - kidneys - liver - lungs
Effects on these aren't miracles, they should be expected.
I am happy to hear you saw so many improvements, but it's because you had an issue with a hormone that is involved in a lot of things in the body. So it was going to express a lot of problems. It's not surprising that you see a lot of improvements when you begin to manage the underlying cause.