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Japanese researchers got obese mice to lose weight using single-shot gene editing to get their bodies to produce the same drug that is in Ozempic. (www.nature.com)
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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's all fine and dandy, but your original comment is still a shocking oversimplification of a really not simple issue.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth -4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

illness isn't caused by a lack of medication ... it really is as simple as stop doing the thing that harms you.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago

It really, truthfully, is not. I never once said that a lack of medication is the thing stopping me from losing weight, so idk why you're bringing that up, but "just stop eating in an unhealthy way" is a simple sentence but far more complex in practice.

However, we clearly don't see eye to eye on this so I'm just going to disengage.