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Notes && Anecdotes

Obesity is a thing of the past

societal

Novo Nordisk spent a century on insulin, then disrupted themselves with Ozempic. Body composition as a class marker is just getting started.

There are two major broad health issues that effect a ton of people.

– Extra fat: people are bigger than what’s good for their bodies. – Frailty: we live longer than what our body is intended to.

These problems are going away in my lifetime. Here’s why.

Baseline assumption:

What enough people wants and is possible, happens, as long as the same people are willing to pay the costs for it, directly or through taxes.

Baseline implications:

  • There will be a pill for muscles (We’re now working on non-androgenic anabolics)
  • There will be a pill for fat-loss (We now call it Ozempic)
  • There’s an app to make you pretty online (We still call it filters, but AI might change the label)

Predictions:

  • Social acceptance of obesity decreases
  • Importance of body composition as a social class indicator increases
  • Use of cosmetic surgery increases
  • SoMe: Being fit becomes expected, not necessarily admired

Related effects:

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