Different people experience different levels of suffering.

I just started on a GLP-1, and it has already been an interesting lesson in the subjective nature of food drives and hunger.

I've heard for literally years the advice "just drink some water it will trick you into feeling less hungry".

And I've always suspected this was some bullshit placebo, because that OBVIOUSLY doesn't work (so I thought). Water doesn't replace food, it just fills up your stomach so that eating becomes somewhat more unpleasant. But the food/hunger drive is still there unabated.

Well, except after taking a GLP-1 I actually experienced the sensation of drinking something and having my hunger go down. Whatever that circuit is, it has been broken in me for at least my entire adult life. So giving me that advice had been like trying to explain the color to a blind person.

Which, oddly, ties a lot more into the subject title than the example the author gave...