The Science of Fasting

SaintInBucLand said

There have been lots of reports about many of those drugs causing gastroparesis(I believe what it is called, where the stomach and parts of the upper intestines are partially paralyzed.

The hardest thing for me to give up was bread. But once I realized that bread and other grains were causing me the terrible gerd I was having it was easy to not look back.

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And we don’t know yet the long-term safety of off-label use of those drugs.

I know several people on that ish and they all look sickly and anorexic. And, not a single one of them have changed their lifestyle. Still eating out all the time and drinking heavily multiple times per week.

Plus you have to stay on it if you want to stay skinny. Once you stop, without significant lifestyle overhaul (which most are too lazy/undisciplined to do) you’ll just pack the weight back on.