Can GLP-1s Save the Industry?

Looks like there’s so much hype going on around these medications the Medicare will have to start including these GLP-1 drugs, once that happens the next big push will be lowering prices. According to what I’ve read the medications cost 7-10x as much here in the United States as they do in Europe. According to news reports the meds cost $1300. -$1600. For monthly medication in the U. S. in most European countries they cost less than $50. For the same dosage.
You don’t seriously believe that strip clubs will absorb those costs, do you?

"Clubs should help pay for it" No, thank you, lap dance costs have risen too much already.

Good point. The clubs would just pass the cost on to us PLs.
Sigh. There’s no free lunch in life.

@25 - if strippers are independent contractors, they aren't giving the girls health insurance anyways. If they have commercial insurance, Lilly and Novo Nordisk can provide them with zero copay.

If we want to reduce the number of fat girls in clubs, stop buying dances from fat girls. I like a little meat on the bones but I guess some guys are into morbid obesity.

^ I don’t disagree with that you’re repeating pretty much what I said
Good to know that Lilly and Novo have an assistance plan to help people afford these medications

I used to be a food addict; now I am an Ozempic addict. Anyone know anyone who lost weight with Ozempic, went off it and now look like they never did it? I do. People lose weight with Ozempic, go off it and put the weight back on. Just like surgery (talking to you Charlie Weiss), it is an effective short-term, useless long-term solution. If once you've lost the weight, you have to modify your lifestyle, diet and exercise routine to keep the weight off, why not just lose weight the same way you will have to maintain the loss?
Due to my age I know a lot of people who have done Ozempic. Most of them agree that the first thing people ask them after the weight loss is: "do you have cancer"? Thats how fast you lose it, but you gonna do injections forever? Oh, it appears it doesn't work longer than a year anyway.

I'm for most anything that will reduce the fat chick population!
But until that happens just refuse to give them money.

These medications are for morbidly obese people and obese diabetics. If demand from vain but healthy individuals were not so high, costs for the limited supply would not be so high. If not-morbidly-obese non-diabetics would eat right and exercise, they would not need pharmaceutical help. I had an egg-white omelet with garden vegetables for breakfast and my lats and serratus hurt like hell from switching up my workouts yesterday. I would have rather had a stack of pancakes, bacon, and slept in; but I am not going to be stuck on a $1,000/mth ($350 with in PBN) for a medication I have to take for the rest of my life which may cause pancreatitis, thyroid disease, cancer, or gastroparesis.

These are the worse kind of medications - the silver bullet which gets a patient for life, where quitting the med makes you sicker than you were before. Imagine if that same $300-$1000/mth were used to give patients physical therapy, nutritional counseling, and a dietician to help them change their behaviors so they could learn for themselves how to manage their weight and health. There's a documentary called "Do No Pharm" about the FDA and CDC mutual exchange program with the pharmaceutical industry. Don't watch it unless you want to be outraged.

@25 - yes, I am agreeing with you.

@skibum - Blood pressure and cholesterol drugs don't work after you stop using them, so I don't see how GLP-1s not being a permanent solution is a strike against them.

@gammanu - those side effects are pretty rare. PT, nutritional counseling, and dietitians have been around forever and still not made a dent. GLP-1s have. Whatever helps people lose weight and reduces the burden on the system, I'm all for.

We still need long term data on these drugs, but all signs point to success.

Those are scam drugs. All that dancers need to do is get on a keto or carnivore diet. It's easy to keep the weight off if you eat properly.

Also, the clubs need to raise their standards when it comes to hiring. If I owned a club, I wouldn't hire out of shape or unattractive dancers because it would make my club look bad. Strippers are supposed to be hot.

^ Why do you say they're a scam?

@Puddy Tat

They're not necessary or good for people. They are pumped out by the pharmaceutical companies to make filthy amounts of money. They're dangerous to people's long-term health.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ygdxz057KM0?s…

From the looks of these smash or pass posts and comments, it seems to me like guys like the fat girls. Many of the slimmer girls I see also want to be thick and develop shit eating habits in their early 20's while they still have the metabolism to burn it off, then they hit their mid twenties and the metabolism changes but the eating habits just get worse. Doesn't take long to pack on the pounds at that stage.

I'd also agree that the reports from the people I know who've taken it, mostly vain former or current trophy wives, drop the fluff real quick. Some of them also find the motivation to to do some sort of exercise to firm up, and they look real fucking good. But, then they stop and the weight usually comes back nearly as fast as it fell off. Even the ones who developed exersize habits aren't immune from gaining back the weight. And in my limited experience, they usually lose the discipline in the gym once they stop seeing the results.

I wouldn't go so far as to call them a scam, even with their high cost, if they keep weight down and prevent or delay the onset of diabetes or heart conditions, I'd still consider them wonder drugs and wildly successful.

So, no. I don't think those drugs are gonna save the industry.

@Lex - the data says otherwise. Of course the pharmaceutical industry wants to make money, just like any other industry out there. The reduction in not just obesity but heart attacks, strokes, sleep apnea, liver disease speaks for itself. These drugs are out in the public domain so it's hard to call a conspiracy theories.

Put on muscle mass by eating protein and doing resistance training. Not incompatible with a GLP-1.