That's a trivial claim about any medication that changes behavior. You can achieve the same thing that the medication does by "just" having different behavior.

Studies show nothing but high-touch interventions by specialists actually works for losing weight and keeping it off for a study cohort (i.e. might represent a population-level solution).

These are impractically expensive and still less effective than one might expect.

Researchers seem to be eager about the promise of supplementing the very-best programs they’ve been able to find… with GLP-1 agonists. Because that might finally make them really effective.

That’s how bad the entire body of all other solutions we’ve looked at is.

Not to argue for or against Ozempic, but there is a difference between what motivated individuals can achieve on their own, and what one can expect of the general population.

Do you have the time to seek out and keep healthy food? Can you afford it? Do you have the executive function and impulse control etc to bring to bear the necessary self discipline?

You’re making some pretty casual assumptions about people’s abilities.

If all it took to get the same feeling of GLP-1 agonists was success at the diet for 2-4 weeks, I would have a lot less experience being successful at diets for 2-4 weeks. A whole lot less.

> You can literally do the same thing by eating a healthy diet for 2-4 weeks.

You have been downvoted, but that's true(and supported by evidence and science). Statistically, what most people have is sugar addiction. Simple carbs in general completely mess up your hunger hormones.

The problem is that most people don't know what a healthy diet is. The food pyramid isn't it. Drinking a bunch of juice isn't it. Cereal is candy. They try "eating healthy", fail (not realizing what they are eating isn't healthy at all) and give up.