As a beer enthusiast drinking unhealthy amounts rather too frequently, my drinking went way down when on Mounjaro.
(Maybe it wouldn't have made the same difference if I was into whisky instead of beer - with beer, I suspect it's the relatively large volume of drink involved that may have made it less appealing?)
Recently switched to Wegovy since the big Mounjaro price hikes here in the UK, and it seems rather less effective overall. Both beer and snacks are somewhat more appealing again :(
Side effects are generally rare, but it really depends on the person. I tried to start five times, and got massive side effects each time. The last time I started, I did my own protocol (started at 0.5mg every three days and increased a bit on every injection).
Now I'm up to 6mg and I'm not getting any side effects, but it also doesn't work for me! I lost 6kg at one point but the effects wore off and I gained the weight again.
None of my friends had this experience, for everyone else it's worked with no side effects. I really am cursed.
Be on the look out, I had really bad semaglutide side effects and had to stop. Thought microdosing would help, but the side effects just ramped up more slowly, culminating in what I assume was gastroparesis (my food just stopped digesting for over a day and I couldn’t eat despite being hungry and depleted, not to speak of the rest of the digestive process).
I also had drastically degraded (increased) resting heart rate, (decreased) heart rate variability, and exercise intolerance - a normal easy run started to make it feel like my heart would explode and gave me palpitations. Off it, I can run a 5K and beyond no problem, if my knees cooperate.
Food noise came into the picture much worse than baseline after I stopped, although it did eventually come down and I’ve been able to start losing weight again after a few months off. Berberine seems to help, at the expense of giving me nausea like semaglutide, but no other side effects.
I created the map as an Obsidian canvas. (It is stored as a json file internally).
I am using https://js.cytoscape.org/ to render this json file on the website.
I tried out of the box obsidian canvas publishers, but they did not work. Hence the misaligned nodes.
At least in my country, the amnesty only acts against left wing politicians and governments, you can literally compare similar cases or even worse that they intentionally don't emit no judgment, report or whatsoever
That's weird I have somehow opposite experience. I came from Europe and amnesty here usually agitate for foreign political prisoners or local unjustice. Some more crooked politicians of course hate them for obvious reasons but overall they are absolutely good actor.
I just wondering, would you mind to share from which part of the world you are for some context?
We still live in the shadow of the Temperance movement, where alcohol was demonized and liver disease became its symbol. But modern science shows that sugary drinks, even fruit juice, can cause the same liver issues once blamed solely on alcohol.
Maybe the real takeaway isn’t “avoid alcohol,” but “understand what harms the liver.” We’ve moralized one source of damage while ignoring others.
It has been known for millennia that overfeeding geese with sweet fruits is how you make "foie gras" (which is why in the Romance languages the name for liver comes from figs, replacing the original Indo-European name, which was still used in Classic Latin).
There is no surprise that the same thing happens in humans.
The liver must process all the fructose from sugar and all the alcohol that are ingested. Excessive amounts of either of them will overload the liver capacity of processing them, which also varies between humans.
> in the Romance languages the name for liver comes from figs, replacing the original Indo-European name, which was still used in Classic Latin
Liver comes “from Proto-Germanic librn” [1]. Meanwhile, “the Ancient Greek and Latin words for liver (hepar
and iecur) always referred to ‘liver’ directly” [2]. (“The original PIE word would have sounded something like yoqur or yequr.”) None of which sounds like the Latin ficus for fig. (EDIT: Oh, that’s the point.)
>My $15 weight scale from Amazon measures body fat and syncs to my phone
Smartwatches like the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5/6, which use wrist based sensors to measure body fat, are convenient but not very reliable. They typically have an error margin of ±3–5% (e.g., reading 17.5%–23.0% for someone who is 20%) because they only measure your torso and are sensitive to your hydration levels. A 2022 study in Obesity Facts by Kim et al. found a mean error of 3.8% for Samsung's BIA compared to a DEXA scan. The U.S. Navy Method, which uses a tape measure for your neck, waist, and hips, is a cheap alternative but has a ±4–6% error margin (e.g., 16.0%–24.0%) due to inconsistencies in measuring and variations in body shape. A 2019 study in Military Medicine by Hinton et al. reported a mean error of 4.2% for this method in men.
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