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Comment on: How long til we're all on Ozempic?
> The immediacy of the danger makes things incomparable.Being obese is an immediate danger. It is an increase in risk for all cause mortality. Being obese today is making you more likely to develop cancer. It's making your more vulnerable to hear attack or stroke. It is one of the highest comorbidities with covid and plenty of other diseases.It also is taking decades off your lifespan in the long term, of course. Some of that can be reversed by reversing your obesity, but for some the damage is cumulative over time. Maybe we'll get gene therapy or some other advanced medicine and be able to fu