Food manufacturers have altered their advertising and processes to align with GLP-1.
Skin care and cosmetics are being designed and marketed for GLP-1
Restaurants, gyms, clothing. all the industries are aimed at GLP-1 users.
I feel like probably the polio vaccine spanned across the board. Bandaids for the wound. Healing creams. Vitamins.
I'm not sure about insulin though, it's a rather small percent of the population that needs it.
Though, interestingly, GLP-1 it's very closely related to insulin targeting the same cohort of people with a side effect of weight loss for people who want to lose weight
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ReasonableBeepApr 2, 2026
+15
Insulin was revolutionary. Children were forced to fast as spiking blood sugar would put them into medical emergencies and they were subject to dying of starvation. Insulin worked almost instantly to wake them up from comas and let them leave the hospitals alive.
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thefuzzyismineApr 2, 2026
+12
The story of that first insulin use has always stuck with me. I picture the scientists arriving with the vials, nurses moving bed to bed, and a ward full of children who were, until that moment, essentially dying - many already in ketoacidosis.
And their parents, standing there, watching this last-ditch hope unfold.
Then, slowly, as the minutes turned into hours, everything changing. Kids who were fading beginning to stir. Breathing steadying. Eyes opening. It must have felt almost unreal, right? Like life returning one bed at a time.
Insulin didn’t just improve outcomes, it completely rewrote what diabetes meant. It turned something that was almost a death sentence into something people could.actually live with.
I learned about it at a family support meeting for a juvenile diabetic camp that my big sister was going to and it's remained my favorite 'Mircale of Modern Medicine' story ever since.
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DogsDucksApr 3, 2026
+3
You wrote this so beautifully it gave me tears in my eyes. I’ve read about it before, that some of the children in coma’s woke up before they even finished dosing everyone, but you just really brought it to life. You’re a writer.
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thefuzzyismineApr 3, 2026
+3
That's kind of you to say, but thank you!
Admittedly, it probably stuck with me so well only because my older sister was a juvenile diabetic. She was in a coma for almost 2 months at just over a year old. She'd already been diagnosed by the time I was born so, I grew up being taught about the disease.
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scarlettohara1936Apr 3, 2026
+2
And then of course the guy who discovered and developed it gave the patent away for $1 because he didn't think anyone should profit from such a lifesaving medicine.
But leave it to the drug companies...
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thefuzzyismineApr 3, 2026
+2
Capitalism ruins everything given time, I agree. The impact those scientists made in the lives of diabetics and their families, however, continues unmarried by the taint of greed.
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deirdresmApr 3, 2026
+1
A friend’s mother, [Rosalyn Yalow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Sussman_Yalow), did a lot of the work that led to that discovery, plus mentored one of the researchers who discovered GLP-1. She also won a Nobel prize for her work.
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atlantagirl30084Apr 2, 2026
+2
There’s these before and after pics where you see a skeletal child pre insulin and then a healthy child after.
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scarlettohara1936Apr 3, 2026
+2
Oh I know! I'm a nurse! And I'm diabetic. It was revolutionary! I'm just not sure that it spanned across multiple industries like GLP-1 or The Pill
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crvbabybugApr 2, 2026
+4
Since you mentioned it, I remember there was information that one of the most significant medical changes that society made was inventing the toilet.
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scarlettohara1936Apr 3, 2026
+1
The toilet? Or plumbing? There's been toilets forever. It's the plumbing that took the waste away that was so important
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crvbabybugApr 3, 2026
+1
Toilets, it was a charity that dug latrines in remote parts of Africa. So both.
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ajmart23Apr 2, 2026
+24
Maybe I’m oblivious but not sure there’s been that many industry changes. I haven’t seen any alterations to food in grocery stores; in general upward trend towards protein has been going a while.
Makeup, not sure how or why they would be affected but I don’t wear any.
Restaurants locally haven’t had any noticeable differences, but I guess you could say the amount of take out orders or large orders have gone down.
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Geodevils42Apr 2, 2026
+16
This is like when Gluten tolerances became a fad and things that were already gluten free advertised themselves as so to sell me.
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theacearrowApr 3, 2026
+3
actually, no, they weren't advertised as such simply to sell them. as a celiac person, I genuinely have to buy everything gluten free, even the stupid stuff. Chapstick, lentils, soaps, frozen veg, oats. Hell, even cheeses, sometimes. Gluten is in everything
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scarlettohara1936Apr 3, 2026
Maybe it's more noticeable to me because I'm diabetic and on them. But every other as I see is related to GLP-1 use. Dry skin from GLP-1? Try our moisturizer formulated specially for you! Saggy skin from losing weight? Try our shapewear! New portion sizes packed with nutrients for GLP-1 users!
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ajmart23Apr 3, 2026
+2
Ooh that’s a very good point actually! I didn’t really think of that for all the skin tightening.
Honestly I’m just bombarded with the nonstop commercials for the GLP-1s so I’d say even the prescription advertising business is in a bit of a sway at the moment.
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PigSlamApr 2, 2026
+15
The Covid vaccines were kind of a big deal.
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alayeni-silvermistApr 2, 2026
+7
Prozac
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scarlettohara1936Apr 2, 2026
+13
Maybe V*****?
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Loisgrand6Apr 2, 2026
+2
Skin care and cosmetics?
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Tambo5Apr 2, 2026
+2
Penicillin
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welding_guy_from_LIApr 2, 2026
+2
There’s a sucker born every minute
People will piss away their money for any fad diet
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BizzlebangerApr 2, 2026
+1
Fentanyl
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I_demand_peanutsApr 2, 2026
+14
You know there are actual diabetics that benefit from GLP-1s, right?
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Already-asleepApr 2, 2026
+2
Unfortunately there’s been a lot of fear mongering around GLP-1s. I think it’s a combo of 1. The most visible users being wealthy people who probably do not fall within the intended demographic from a medical perspective and 2. Bootstrap mentality that there is a “right way” to lose weight (and every fitness influencer has their own shit to sell). Obviously they don’t work for everyone and they have risks like all medications. They don’t modify behaviour which is why it would be great if people had access to dieticians, therapists, and trainers/coaches alongside the medication so hopefully people can stop taking it in the long run and maintain a healthy weight through lifestyle alone.
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scarlettohara1936Apr 3, 2026
+1
You commented to someone who deleted their post so I didn't see exactly what was said. However GLP-1 helps regulate blood sugar by triggering the pancreas to produce insulin. While lifestyle changes are important there's no lifestyle change to cure diabetes. It's a lifetime medication for diabetics, period.
The benefits of well regulated blood sugar are well known. Taking injectable insulin in response to elevated blood sugar isn't as valuable as having a stable blood sugar because your body is producing it's own insulin keeping blood sugar within normal range
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ryanpnApr 2, 2026
+1
I didn't think I've seen any commercials that actually mentioned diabetes. Theyre just really vague and only talk about the weight loss.
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