we need China’s diabetes cure.
Over 20 years ago my mother got weight loss surgery, the doctor that did it was an absolute hack and has since vanished into the sunset after making a shitload of money from people. My mother has things she just can’t eat anymore because they’ll sit too hard on what’s left of her stomach. A few years ago she had an issue where she was throwing up everything she ate and I dragged her to the hospital, they found that the coconut shreds she had been snacking on had formed a bolus that wasn’t moving and that her stomach was basically the size of a blister. Thanks to this issue we were able to catch and address some of the issues. She also cannot absorb iron orally so she needs infusions every few months. Can’t help but think about the years lost and the upcoming nutritional struggles as she gets older. She hit that “rare but terrible side effect” mark. I feel bad for the people just trying to improve their life and getting fucked in the process by people that really just don’t care, the company could add the warning of gastroparesis to their packaging easily.
Words cannot describe how much I despise the cult of Dr Now and how super obese people have to have their lives constantly speculated on and ridiculed before they get health care which doesn’t seem to have left the age of barbarism and petty cruelty.
The idea that these people normally eating 3000-5000 Calories a day can just jump over to 1200 a day instantly and should they “cheat” or stumble while trying get yelled at on a man that holds the potential to save your life in his hands. If it wasn’t a giant circus they’d approach it reasonably stating that even 2500 a day would be enough for a significant loss which would allow for a less sudden and abrupt change, not to mention the fact that most aren’t really given proper mental health support for what is 1000% stemming from mental health issues.
Like a compassionate society would find some safer alternative to maiming people’s organs or lifelong prescriptions to relatively recent drugs originally intended for diabetics only.
I still think there is something to salvage from fat liberation. Obesity has evolved into this apocalyptic super object for which there is no sound solution or escape for half the population not long from now. There are people who are living hand to mouth out of food banks and still gain weight because of obesogenic nature of the available food and the chemical environment. Only true dignity is the first step to surviving it.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
