arcticorangutan on Nostr: Sick has become the new normal: I’ve been listening to this excellent podcast ...
Sick has become the new normal:
I’ve been listening to this excellent podcast conversation about Ozempic between athlete and podcaster Rich Roll and author Johann Hari.
The conversation perfectly summarizes two diametrically opposite views of our current healthcare system:
On the one hand have you have Hari, who has been studying (and ingesting) the Diabetes-drug-turned-weight-loss-drug-turned-panacea and is a proponent, though, to be fair he also cautions about some of the side-effects and general enthusiasm.
Roll, on the other hand, is a former alcoholic and fast-food enthusiast who has turned his life around to become an ultra-marathon runner and is a proponent of a holistic and preventative approach to health.
The most telling moment in the conversation occurs when Hari talks about the benefits of Ozempic, goes on to call a healthy lifestyle “the alternative” and Roll calls him out on it.
Our assumption has become that it is no longer possible to be mostly healthy and that we all, from a young age, must rely on medication to live a tolerable life. Living a healthy lifestyle has become a secondary, far distant alternative, not really accessible to most of us.
In some sad, matter-of-fact way this is true because many of our fellow citizens are now effectively socio-economically locked out of a healthy lifestyle.
But when we talk about aspirations for our health and that of future generations, we have to aim much higher than a dystopian world in which we are all hooked on medications for life.
Jacques-Louis David’s “The Death of Marat” (1793)
I’ve been listening to this excellent podcast conversation about Ozempic between athlete and podcaster Rich Roll and author Johann Hari.
The conversation perfectly summarizes two diametrically opposite views of our current healthcare system:
On the one hand have you have Hari, who has been studying (and ingesting) the Diabetes-drug-turned-weight-loss-drug-turned-panacea and is a proponent, though, to be fair he also cautions about some of the side-effects and general enthusiasm.
Roll, on the other hand, is a former alcoholic and fast-food enthusiast who has turned his life around to become an ultra-marathon runner and is a proponent of a holistic and preventative approach to health.
The most telling moment in the conversation occurs when Hari talks about the benefits of Ozempic, goes on to call a healthy lifestyle “the alternative” and Roll calls him out on it.
Our assumption has become that it is no longer possible to be mostly healthy and that we all, from a young age, must rely on medication to live a tolerable life. Living a healthy lifestyle has become a secondary, far distant alternative, not really accessible to most of us.
In some sad, matter-of-fact way this is true because many of our fellow citizens are now effectively socio-economically locked out of a healthy lifestyle.
But when we talk about aspirations for our health and that of future generations, we have to aim much higher than a dystopian world in which we are all hooked on medications for life.
Jacques-Louis David’s “The Death of Marat” (1793)