> If Ozempic is so great then how come our bodies don't just produce more GLP-1?
Because our bodies have been tuned to deal with food shortages for hundreds of thousands of years. Now we live in an age of abundance but our bodies still try to harvest each calorie they can get.
If this continues we might evolve to no longer store surplus calories as fat. Though I doubt it because the age people die from overweight related issues is way after the age most people have kids at.
But I imagine that soon we will be able to directly tune some of that evolutionary bagage that no longer applies, by gene modification.
Because our bodies have been tuned to deal with food shortages for hundreds of thousands of years. Now we live in an age of abundance but our bodies still try to harvest each calorie they can get.
If this continues we might evolve to no longer store surplus calories as fat. Though I doubt it because the age people die from overweight related issues is way after the age most people have kids at.
But I imagine that soon we will be able to directly tune some of that evolutionary bagage that no longer applies, by gene modification.