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by omgwtfbyobbq 662 days ago
This. We have however many millennia of natural selection influencing our genetic characteristics, and that's been shoehorned into a very different lifestyle over the past few hundred years.

Ideally, we could allow everyone enough time off enough exercise, rest, and so on, to emulate what has shaped us for the first however many millennia, but we haven't.

Using a medication to compensate for that seems reasonable, provided we've accurately estimated it's negatives, etc...