Mounjaro
I have just resumed taking blood sugar suppressing and weight loss inducing Mounjaro shots which I had suspended for a month on account of an invasive hernia repair surgery.
Despite their incredible success in effecting weight loss and lowering blood sugars, I think semaglutide medications like Mounjaro and Ozempic are dangerous... not for the advertised side effects (constipation is one), a manageable risk for most users, but for the civilizational risk of allowing people to be suppress blood sugar and become thin by bypassing the normal human exigencies of good life habits including diet and exercise.
By taking semaglutides are we messing with the natural human race growth process or even human consciousness itself when we can be thin while overeating and being sedentary? HHS Secretary RFK, Jr., while not having opined specifically on semaglutide impact on American health levels, is notorious for his claims that some vaccines and much of what we ingest are long term harmful to human health.
When I think of possible semaglutide impact on the human evolutionary process I think of the creatures that make up the space navigator guild in Frank Herbert's novel, "Dune." Space Guild Navigators are evolved humans which resemble ugly blobs of flesh cloaked in robes. The Space Guild Navagators have hyper-genius ability because of their consumption over the generations of the "spice" of the planet Arrakis. They have the ability to "bend space" to allow for interstellar travel. Perhaps altered evolution by spice consumption to enable interstellar space travel wouldn't be such a bad thing, but what if altered evolution due semaglutides leads to, say, sterility, or race extinction? We don't know the longer-term effects of taking these medications.
So, given these concerns, why do I take Mounjaro? Because it really works! I've lost forty pounds since beginning May this year (2025)! But I'm codger. I won't be impacting the human evolutionary process between now and when my time is up. Meanwhile, let the good times roll! Knock on wood.