alt Hacker NewsThe health problems associated with obesity are very real (not to mention that it makes you look worse), GLP-1 agonists really do work for most people to cause significant weight loss, and it's currently difficult to get them prescribed by a legitimate doctor unless your obesity-related health problems are really severe. This will probably change over the next several years, but in the meantime buying them from a grey market Chinese pharmacy works now, and is reasonably safe and effective.
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There’s a good three part radio series from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX about how drugs for pets sourced from grey markets played out with the FDA:
[index] https://revealnews.org/podcast/cat-drug-feline-infectious-pe...
[1] https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/listen/hyperfixed/the-cat-drug...
[2] https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/listen/hyperfixed/the-cat-drug...
[3] https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/listen/hyperfixed/the-cat-drug...
> it's currently difficult to get them prescribed by a legitimate doctor unless your obesity-related health problems are really severe
I think it’s more accurate to say that it’s difficult to get them covered by insurance unless your obesity-related health problems are really severe. In my experience, doctors have no problem prescribing GLP-1 drugs for weight management.
It is not “reasonably safe”. No reasonable person would inject themselves with drugs they bought from an unregulated pharmacy.