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rayineryesterday at 5:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

GLP-1s aren’t “forever drugs.” They’re eliminated so fast from your system you need to keep taking them to keep the effect. That’s the opposite of a forever drug. If you go off them, you just return to the way you were.


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SAI_Peregrinusyesterday at 6:58 PM

I think they mean they're drugs you have to keep taking forever (for the rest of your life) to keep the effects.

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cassianolealyesterday at 6:35 PM

Which means if you want to maintain their effect, you need to keep taking them forever. So maybe GP used the wrong term but I suspect they meant exactly this.

In any case, we just don't know what kind of long-term effects these drugs have. No one knows what happens if you come out of them 30 years after you started.

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