Ancestors

Written by Jenny Andrew on 2025-01-26 at 07:41

Drinks industry worried about weight-loss drugs… are they really, though?

I am kind of interested in the economics of the whole weight-loss drug thing. Obviously they’re alluring, but there must be a pretty low ceiling on the proportion of the population likely to be taking them at any time, even at saturation point.

• they have to be overweight

• want to take it

• eligible for NHS prescriptions or have the money for private

• it’s not approved for long-term use, etc…

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/26/skinny-jabs-are-turning-slimmers-teetotal-and-drinks-companies-are-feeling-the-loss

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Toot

Written by Jenny Andrew on 2025-01-26 at 07:48

Is that really enough, at this stage of their roll-out, to take such a chunk out of the drinks industry… or could there be something even more unpalatable going on…

Like maybe the last few decades of normalised, deep-and-wide boozing was an aberration, and the gravy train is being decommissioned, Ozempic or not?

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Descendants

Written by Jenny Andrew on 2025-01-26 at 07:58

Anyway, I can’t help thinking that the more hype there is about any wonderdrug, the more bizarre, ghastly, or just untenable the side-effects turn out to be…

My money’s on people sprouting tentacles with these ones.

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Written by noodle on 2025-01-26 at 07:56

@drandrewv2 Once a few connectors go T total it drives momentum in reducing 'wine and dine' culture.

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Written by Jenny Andrew on 2025-01-26 at 08:21

@noodle I can see that. We hear all the time, though, about that happening as a generational shift, or some kind of cultural resettling, so I would love to see the relative contributions of, eg. Gen-Z non-drinkers; Ozempic non-drinkers; newly-diagnosed-and-treated ADHDers; local increases in religious non-drinkers due to demographic change etc.

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Written by Ehproque on 2025-01-26 at 08:47

@drandrewv2 @noodle Maybe this is their real concern but they can't bring themselves to say it out loud

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Written by Jenny Andrew on 2025-01-26 at 10:58

@ehproque @noodle yeah, I did wonder if they’re really just squirming around the inconvenience of public health

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Written by Kat on 2025-01-26 at 08:43

@drandrewv2 Taking Thalidomide in a whole new direction!

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Written by Lincoln Lincoln on 2025-01-26 at 16:25

@drandrewv2 - How many tentacles? And would they be prehensile and fully usable? Asking...um...for a friend. Yes.

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