Thank you. "No free lunch" is perhaps my least favorite saying.
Free lunch is good. We should strive for free lunch. You can actually make things better with no cost.
These days is feels like a good segment of the population is decidedly anti-solution. Doesn't matter what the solution is, they don't want it. They take a "do nothing and hope it works" approach to everything.
IMO "No free lunch" is not anti-solution at all, on the contrary its a problem solving (engineering?) tenet that simply acknowledges there are always trade offs and constraints. Just like any software engineering project can't be expected to do everything for all people with no cost.
The "magic pill of health" aura that surrounds these new drugs is clearly opaque in terms of what the trade offs are, partly because its still way too early to know.
Back to my original post, there is some evidence of risk of going blind as a result from taking Ozempic et al. Might be worth the risk for some, even many. I'm fully in support of options and letting people make informed choices. Informed being the key word here. It will take time for things to shake out, I do hope there is a net positive since we are talking about millions of people after all.
