Pharma & hospitals are the ultimate growth hackers… just not for health. They’re optimized for treating rising obesity, not reducing it. Less obesity = fewer hospital days = fewer $$$. Meanwhile, a shift to 'Food is Health' feels inevitable—capital-light, sustainable, and (ironically) less profitable for them.
You should check out "amidwesterndoctor" on sub-stack and his sharing the downsides of this "wonder" drug
Pharma & hospitals are the ultimate growth hackers… just not for health. They’re optimized for treating rising obesity, not reducing it. Less obesity = fewer hospital days = fewer $$$. Meanwhile, a shift to 'Food is Health' feels inevitable—capital-light, sustainable, and (ironically) less profitable for them.
Anti-obesity drugs only compensate, incompletely, for human weakness and lack of discipline.
There are no miracle cures, nor genies in bottles either.
Well, humans are more likely to invent such drugs than to grow more discipline.
You are correct.
So few understand that discipline does not come from imposing mere will.
The only sustainable way is to start by embracing the habit.
Then routine takes over, does what will alone cannot.
By habit you rise early; work-out; eat clean; avoid carbohydrates..
Whatever your purpose requires.
"GDP is a poor proxy for the societal value of healthcare innovation" because it misses many quality-of-life benefits."
True but irrelevant for cost benefit analysis of innovation.