[Ginden]

> This is opposed to coming up with long term solutions that involve re-evaluating daily decisions that lead to some of these diseases in the first place.

Medicine tried this. It's extremely hard to actually to do it in practice. Obviously, it's better solution, but we are living in real world, where we have to choose "good enough" solutions over those deemed "better, but infeasible for 90% of patients".

[smileysteve]

"re-evaluating daily decisions" is exactly what suppressing these hormones allow people to do; so that they can make rational instead of hormone driven decisions.