Ezra Klein
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Eli Lilly also makes Zepound, the trisepatide variant.
And this is in trials now, and it's expected that it will be approved in the next some amount of time, and it'll probably be a big deal.
It works even better than the other two.
But I don't really understand why all these people I know are getting a compounded thing from pharmacies they can't oversee when there are perfectly good GLP-1s on the market now that you could get and have full confidence in the way they're being manufactured.
Like, what's going on with Reddit 2Tread?
Why is it both like around my community and all over my social media feeds?
No, this is just like straight up X for me.
The argument I keep seeing about it is that it increases energy use, that it seems to have some independent effect on how much calories are burning.
People I knew who used to order drugs on the Internet, they were ordering fun drugs.
Now it's like these weird eat less and focus more.
One thing I think is interesting about the GLP-1s, I mean, for everything we've talked about here, is, for instance, you know, the categories of who might want to lose a little bit of weight.
or even more so, who might want to protect themselves from inflammation, they speak to this reality that the difference between well and sick is not this clear binary thing.
We now have these categories like pre-diabetic and pre-hypertensive and pre-menopausal, and we didn't used to have them.
I mean, we keep expanding the space in which you should worry.
We have pre-overweight, pre-obese kind of things.
And I think that there is an interesting dimension as people start looking for chemical answers to wellness.
Because the truth is, for a lot of people, get enough sleep and go to the gym regularly and eat whole foods is hard.
If you could give yourself a shot or take a pill, people want it.
And so how do you think about the broader shift, which is not new, but it's happening with more force right now, towards medicine as not a way of treating illness, but as a way of optimizing wellness?