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reducesuffering10/11/20241 replyview on HN

One very understated aspect that I haven't seen brought up:

If part of the obesity epidemic is trying to consume food to make up for nutrient deficiencies, these drugs will only worsen these nutritional deficiencies. You'll lose weight short-term, but long-term sabotaged your body trying to attain these. We've seen declining vitamins and minerals in natural food (industrial produce growth). Maybe some people make it up with a heavy supplement regimen, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of now-normal-weight people on Ozempic having major health problems due to increasingly deficient Vitamin A (already 51%), K (71%), E (94%), Magnesium (61%), Potassium (97%), Calcium (49%).


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rootusrootus10/11/2024

> If part of the obesity epidemic is trying to consume food to make up for nutrient deficiencies

Is there evidence to support this hypothesis?