Where I live (Sweden), there's a perhaps surprisingly large portion of overweight/obesese people, especially in the countryside. Semaglutide could really do wonders here for quality of life and health.

Meanwhile, the newspapers keep pushing exceptional scare stories. The one that stuck with me from a few weeks ago went like 'I puked up my own poop.'

It is not yet generally subsidized, unless you have a diabetes type 2 diagnose.

The part of Mounjaro that regulates the craving side of the weight loss equation (like reducing 'food noise' and the desire for sugary and fatty foods) seems to also affect other behaviors due to Mounjaro's effect on the brain's reward circuitry. I believe there are also early preliminary studies that indicate it can help with addictions like alcoholism.

Those drugs really are quite something. Shame they're so damn expensive. Insurance here in Germany is unfortunately legally prohibited from covering GLP-1 class drugs for weight loss unless you have a diabetes diagnosis.

It'll come to be known that these drugs are far better for people in a broad way than even thought today. They seem to have at least 4 effects that individually should be considered a "miracle."

This was the disc between lumbar and sacrum. 1,000 ways to have a bad disc so results will vary a lot!

Then someone suggested I try dead hangs, stretching my hamstrings, and really cranking the McKenzie stretch. I'm not sure which one made the difference (all 3?), but pain was gone in 2 weeks.

Maybe it will help, maybe it won't. But since someone took a flyer telling me, I always share this with others in the small chance it helps them.