Ozempic has been in use for diabetic patients for at least a decade if you want to look at the research of its long term results in that population - which is fairly large to constitute a good sample sizing.

So that means we'll have a good twenty years of data to finally look at, which is what I was saying. I do not trust any medicine unless it has far more data than what we have in this regard at this point. I work in a related field and I can simply say most things we trust should not be trusted and should require far more testing.

Then wait another 50 years, easy.

I am much more daring in my will to experiment but I do agree.

Keto, fasting and also breaking the "foodie" culture that eating and going out to eat becomes a hobby.

I didn't order/dine in at all from a restaurant in 2024. It is much easier to not over eat the boring keto meals I make myself. My "cheating" is eating basmati or jasmine rice with a stir fry instead of cauliflower rice.

There is actually not enough known side effects for me to take GLP-1s. They are either complete miracle drugs or side effects we don't currently understand haven't come out in the wash yet.

We have a pretty good track record when a new powerful medication like this is introduces of doing things quite wrong. There are probably risk mitigation strategies we will learn in the coming decades that we simply can't know right now. Otherwise, these are basically free lunch miracle drugs. That seems an easy short.

I'm pretty sure keto has not been extensively studied for anything but the management of epilepsy in children that do not respond to medication. So tbh this is an odd comparison.

Keto and such diets have been used for millennia. Our bodies are MADE to use keto... Lol.