GLP-1 (Ozempic) drugs || Exercise will fail at weight loss || True expertise || Great ideas
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28 January, 2025
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Are GLP1 drugs the portal to a new era in Medicine? Risks and benefits.
Unless you were living under a rock, you must be aware of the incessant buzz around the collection of "miracle drugs" that works wonders on obese people.
Ozempic, the poster child for the class of drugs labelled GLP-1 agonists, first gained attention as a diabetes treatment. It quickly became known for its weight-loss benefits. Other drugs like Wegovy and Mounjaro soon followed.
Beyond weight loss, research highlights GLP-1 drugs’ broader potential, much more than was anticipated, and mostly for the good. Here's a review.
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Why exercise isn’t the default answer to the weight loss conundrum
About a billion humans—one in eight people on the globe—are now obese. Overweight has surpassed diseases of nutrition and infections as the leading cause of disorders today.
Understanding why weight loss is so difficult requires a closer look at how your body works, why exercise alone isn’t enough, and how reducing calorie intake plays the biggest role in achieving lasting results.
Ultimately, modern life fosters overeating, not laziness. Your ancestors evolved to conserve energy for survival, not burn extra calories. Today, with abundant food, your body’s efficiency backfires.
Weight loss depends more on eating fewer calories than exercising. But exercise matters—it restores balance, improves health, and enhances quality of life.
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True expertise doesn't come easy
At its core, expertise is recognition—seeing patterns from a wealth of structured information stored in memory. But this doesn't come easy. There are 4 key elements to becoming a master at any human endeavour: intellectual, artistic, sports ... what have you.
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The seeming effortlessness of true masters, say watching a tennis champion like Roger Federer, boils down to this short list.
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Great ideas are everywhere; you just have to look
The artist and film director, David Lynch, who passed away some days ago, had some unique insights into the process of creativity. For Lynch death was part of a “continuum”. He believed “No one really dies, they just drop their physical body … we’re all going to be fine at the end of the story.”
Here's his insight into getting ideas.
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