Mike Israetel
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5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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The food guide pyramid.
That's the million-dollar question. I will say that the anorectic drugs, Ozempic and et cetera, they lead to less addictive behaviors, which is awesome and actually allows you to express more personal responsibility.
They also reduce your food drive, which is your hunger and your desire to do something about eating more tasty foods so substantially that for any amount of willpower you happen to have, you'll be able to be more successful in the weight loss plan if you have that hunger reduced.
So for example, if you have the same person, in one instance, they have their full weight of their hunger and cravings, and you're like, look, you can make better choices, it's going to cost you a little bit more time, and you're going to be able to plan your whole week out, or you could just right now drive over to Wendy's and just show Dave Thomas what really business support looks like, talking about
Throw them a hundred dollar bill and just, just jump into the window and start eating fries. When you're hungry enough, that last thing sounds like exactly what your body designed you over millions of years to do. And the first one sounds like, oh my God, are you kidding me? Like I can't plan anything. I'm starving. Get out of my face and give me a donut.
And if you're not a donut, definitely get out of my face or I'm going to eat you. That doesn't seem to comport for many people. However, you take that same person and you take their food drive and their hunger down substantially. And these medications, it's like a turn dial. The more of them you take, if you can manage the side effects, the less hunger and food drive you have.
You turn down the food drive from a 10 to a 3. You talk to the same person. You go, what do you think about eating next week? Do you want to try this healthy meal plan? You damn well know you're supposed to be doing anyway, hint, hint. Or do you want to go to Wendy's and just let it all fly? And they're like, you know what? I really should be doing something for my health. You're like, mm-mm.
Well, let me try it. And you're like, well, why are you saying yes now? And they're like, because I'm not starving to death. And that's a big deal. It's kind of a similar idea with something like, you know, I'll go on the political left here because I sound pretty right wing. Something like universal basic income. When people are dirt poor, they got nothing to build on top of nothing.
Tell them, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. I don't have boots. It falls on deaf ears. The whole thing is a rat-raised maze for survival.
But if you get people some decent housing and some decent health care and some decent food to eat and a little bit of money, then all of a sudden, if they're not interested in improving their condition, you can fully blame them now because you got everything you need to start making your life better. You're clearly just being a piece of shit about this.
And on the other hand, also the folks that needed the help... now that they have a place to live and medical care and food, they're like, wow, man, this is so helpful. Now I can determine, I take all of my energy and putting it towards getting a great job, increasing my education, saving away for the future. You've enabled these people to do that.
So in just the same way as some universal basic income might help some folks in some instances do better because you're just de-burdening them in a similar way, the pharmaceutical drugs are de-burdening people from having psychotic hunger all the time.
that they're typically used to after a few weeks of a diet because the psychotic hunger after a few weeks of a diet is not some weird mystery of the universe or the obesogens are causing it. This is just how most people's brain react to dieting because your brain's not designed to make you lean.
It's designed to make you as fat as humanly possible when the opportunity presents itself in most cases. And again, that's why America and Mexico and Half of the world looks as obese as it does now. So empowerment is a big thing these drugs can give you precisely because they can allow you to be the best version of yourself unencumbered by insane drives to continue eating as much food as possible.
Anorectics. Anorectics.
I feel great about them. God bless them. I hope they take all the Ozempic they want. There's not a damn thing wrong with them doing that. However, if they do it in that haphazard way where you're sort of, this is a group of combined two things. One is they're less than 30 pounds overweight, right?
And the other is they also just aren't attending to anything fitness related, like eating enough protein, healthy foods, going to the gym. And they're like, oh, I don't need any of that stuff. There's a pill for that. So they're going to lose all the weight they want, probably, and that's awesome. They can even get skinnier than they planned, which most people think is cool.
I don't like the skinny look. That's not for me, but other people think it's great. God bless them. It's a great look. So nothing on the moral side at all, but there's a consequence to not paying attention to the quality of your diet, especially if you're on powerful drugs that can now radically reduce your body size. For example...
If you're not eating plenty of healthy foods as the core of your diet, these drugs, you just say, you just did junk. You know, those people that aren't super overweight, but all they eat is junk. You ever have coworkers like that? Like, I swear to God, if they stopped making Twinkies and beef jerky, you would starve to death. Like, how are you real?
Those folks will eat less Twinkies and less beef jerky when they start taking these medicines. And then the total amount of micronutrition, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and fiber that they got just barely kept them in working order because they were able to eat enough of this awful foods that have very few of those things in there.
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