I have to wonder what the longer term consequences of modifying peoples essential biological drives chemically will turn out to be in the long run.
That isn't to say this might not be the best solution for many people but I still wonder.
I have to wonder what the longer term consequences of modifying peoples essential biological drives chemically will turn out to be in the long run.
That isn't to say this might not be the best solution for many people but I still wonder.
The biological drive for high calorie food and fat reserves are the problem in a environment where food-scarcity is not an issue.
The sort of food people are going for doesn’t even exist in the natural environment. Good luck finding so much refined sugar in one place or processed fat. Never mind the various preservatives that play the cognitive dissonance game of being a hostile environment for foreign microbiota but hopefully don’t do anything untoward to your own gut microbiota.
It isn’t just playing our systems, but hacking them and giving them inputs they would never usually see for far stronger effects than would be possible.
I modify my biological drive chemically every time I wake up and drink my daily coffee. Seems fine and we've been doing that for a long time now.
People also do it with smoking, and the only reason that is bad is because of the cancer, not the drive changes.
I guarantee the Unhealthy Snack Industry has their top scientists hard at work trying to find some kind of formula to make people on GLP-1 drugs go back to craving the soda and doritos.
They already do that. Zero calorie sodas on grocery shelves now that specifically advertise they have supplemented them with protein, which glp-1 users seek much like a vampire to blood.
The most tenuous of the health concious vc efforts are the nonaloholic beers though. They are eating their own industry. Bars and beer industry does not exist off people getting 2 drinks and going home. They depend on the whales who drink 10+ beers in a sitting who subsidize all the 2 drink and goers. Alcoholics make bars and the beer industry work. It is an open secret. No one is going to buy a 12 rack of Athletic NA Beer and drink the entire thing in front of the bears on tv. No one is ripping a 6 pack of athletic in the parking lot before they go into work. Bars aren’t going to be able to stay open with everyone buying just 1-2 $12 Athletic pints.
If you thought that was bad you have all sorts of drugs that affect libido negatively. In evolutionary terms that’s as good as a poison pill, reproductive fitness of zero.