Metabolic Syndrome is a Real Illness

This is an accidental documentary, in pictures...

I have lost a lot of weight. It's not by accident. It is because of medicine. The medicines prescribed by medical doctors? For me, particularly, they are “glucagon like peptide 1 inhibitors.” That meant Ozempic (semeglutide) and then Mounjaro (tirzepetide)…which adds a kicker (gastric inhibitory peptide)

It is a lot of complex pharmacology. The medically crucial detail is that I had a hemoglobin A1c in the diabetic range—7.4. This is what I look like, according to a screen capture of my TikTok account…that was all about a year ago.

I don't look well. I did not feel well. Being obese, having out of control blood sugar, having the inflammation that goes along with that, it's bad.

The next screenshot it was acquired by just scrolling up, the top line is today, the bottom line is about 8 months ago: