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Originally Posted by Calianna
--it's still a hard push to get patients to follow a diet that's almost the exact opposite of what they've eaten for decades, and the concept of ditching bread and pasta is so foreign to them that they can't believe the doctor is being so cruel... so they're back to just pulling out the Rx pad and ordering a GLP-1, because at least that will generally result in weight loss so help get the physical problems under control.
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THIS more than anything else. Because if someone is eating their feelings, nothing is going to help until they start to spread out their coping strategies. ONE strategy is never a good idea, as we are destined to overuse it.
Therapy is cheaper than the drugs. But I know... insurance doesn't want to pay for it. We aren't giving people enough help in ways that matter. Others decide...
And yet, I live in a small rural town, not trendy at all, and people are aware of keto/lowcarb
methods. They know that pint of ice cream every night is the problem, and so does their doctor. These are societally-encouraged bad habits. At a time we are all super-stressed.
And someone comes along and says, "Just take this drug and you magically won't crave food."
I don't blame anyone for trying it. But even in Disney movies there's always a catch with magic.
As I like to say, "science is magic that actually works." Here, science is being recruited to
fool people. They need real help, not a drug that paralyzes the digestive system. It's no different from jaw wiring at this point. Except people recover from that.
People might not recover from this.