[Terr_]

> The root cause isn't being solved [...] they'd need to keep taking this medication for the effects of the drug to remain.

Hold up, how is impermanence such a black-mark when it's also true of everything else? Exercising must be continued indefinitely, or else the benefits fade, and the same is true of dieting.

Your post suggests that there is some kind of superior one-and-done weight-loss fix that is being overlooked or neglected, but I don't think we even have consensus on what this "root cause" is, and it's not clear why we should expect a perma-fix to be just around the corner.

Is the root problem "humans aren't calibrated for abundant food"? Is the single-event fix a form of gastric-restriction surgery? Genetic editing?