Ok I am invested in this as a GLP-1 user. Here’s the problem with that kind of post: it treats obesity as though it were simply a failure of discipline, rather than a chronic biologic disease involving appetite signaling, satiety, reward pathways, metabolism, genetics, environment, sleep, medications, and food engineering. And I have that disease and take a drug. Yes, intermittent fasting can help some people. So can Mediterranean diets, resistance training, sleep, cognitive therapy, bariatric surgery, and GLP-1 medications. These are not mutually exclusive. But “zero side effects and free” is internet simplification not wisdom. Fasting has side effects: hunger irritability headaches binge/restrict cycles in some patients loss of lean mass if poorly managed hypoglycemia in diabetics gallstones with rapid weight loss poor adherence long term for many people And “free” ignores biology. If telling people to eat less during certain hours reliably solved obesity, we would not have an obesity epidemic after fifty years of diet books. Didn't happen. Retatrutide is interesting precisely because it appears to address the biology underneath food noise and metabolic dysregulation. The remarkable fatty liver data matters because fatty liver disease is not simply cosmetic, but also cirrhosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and liver cancer. The irony is that many physicians happily prescribe antihypertensives for blood pressure, statins for cholesterol, or SSRIs for depression, yet suddenly become philosophers of rugged individualism when obesity medication appears. Nobody says: “Insulin is inferior to mindfulness, because mindfulness is free.” We should stop moralizing obesity treatment and start treating obesity like the chronic disease it is. After all it has been recognized as a chronic disease for years - of course, this person probably has a checkout lane for thie services or product