I’m on vacation this month (Scott-free August), but the enterprise rolls along.
August pod schedule
Markets is off from August 17 to 28.
Raging Moderates is off until August 14.
Prof G Pod is off from August 24 to 28.
GLP-1 for everyone?
I’ll put forward a thesis: Within three years, most of us will be on GLP-1s — not for obesity, but for inflammation, cognition, and longevity. Dr. Melanie Jay, director of NYU Langone’s Comprehensive Program on Obesity Research thinks my prediction is too optimistic. Prof G + paid subscribers get exclusive access to our conversation. To upgrade, click here.
Raging answers
In this summer mailbag episode, Jessica Tarlov and I answer listener questions about the future of the Democratic Party, whether America’s political system can recover from the Trump era, why election fraud claims persist despite a lack of evidence, and what Americans really mean when they talk about socialism and communism. Available exclusively for Prof G + paid subscribers. To upgrade, click here.
ICYMI: I’m joining the University California Board of Regents
This is the only board I have ever wanted to serve on. In my last No Mercy / No Malice before vaction, I wrote about how my success reverse-engineers to things that aren’t my fault, i.e., taxpayers who invested in unremarkable kids by funding public education.
Life is so rich,
P.S.
I had a great conversation with Sam Harris about the collapse of trust in expertise, political extremism, and how social media has transformed our relationship with attention. We also explored the risks posed by artificial intelligence, the power of meditation, and what it takes to build a meaningful life without regret. Watch it here.
Your viewpoint has been swayed by the orchestrated groundswell of positive media by the manufacturers. THEY are the ones suggesting benefits of their drugs, not the FDA. Don't get roped in to their PR that this is greatest thing since sliced bread. It will take MANY years of research which will be difficult in this era of cutbacks in research funding; private companies could fund it, but it's long-term expensive proposition, and it's in their business interest to only make positive claims, so how credible a system would that be?
You are overlooking the many negatives of long-term use of GLP-1s to maintain weight loss: lack of proper nutrition, the fact that unnaturally making our digestive system do not what it is "designed' to do and make it do unnatural processes which will inevitably be detrimental to one's health-how could it not be?
This is just the latest iteration of The Answer, which we've all heard before in the fat wars-take some pills, get surgery one way, then another way, cutting back on healthy eating to fit the calories of an alcoholic drink into your calorie count.
85% of us will not be on GLP-1s. And thank goodness. Being thin is not a health goal, it's a superficial, unhealthy, vain goal. We humans are not supposed to all look the same.This phase will pass like all the rest.
Cool that means we get a vacation too.