The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
All of it just screams hypothalamus, hypothalamus, hypothalamus because here, you're telling me, it's regulating these basal functions like metabolism. It's regulating how much we crave things. And of course, hypothalamus is involved in motivation and craving.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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the hypothalamus is uh choca block full of neurons associated with all sorts of drives and temperature regulation you mentioned earlier you know the preoptic area of the of the hypothalamus involved in temperature regulation and we've always viewed those as somewhat separate but they're actually um quite interconnected and and so I'm not entirely surprised that uh a drug that would reduce cravings for food might also reduce cravings for other things