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The big elephant in the room is where did everyone's endogenous GLP-1 peptide go? A similar elephant in the room is why is synthetic thyroid hormone to replace all the missing endogenous thyroid hormones such a high selling drug?

What in the environment is slowly poisoning everyone so their bodies don't work normally?

Here's a clue, one of hundreds in the medical literature:

"The endocrine disrupting potential of monosodium glutamate (MSG) on secretion of the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) gut hormone and GLP-1 receptor interaction" https://twitter.com/hashtag/AtmosphericRiver?src=hashtag_cli...

There is a huge bias against anyone saying anything in food or otherwise causing anything more than a trivial negative health effect. Everyone says eat healthy, but there's so much more the government in the U.S could do to protect the average consumer from damaging unnecessary food additives. The EU is much better about these food additive issues.



MSG is very common in Asia and has been for a while (you can buy it in 1 kg bags) yet Asia has low obesity.


Very interesting post but aren't obesity rates similarly increasing in EU countries?


Certainly it's one of the largest issues in society today.

We simply don't have much of an idea how the human hormone system works, or how it reacts to all the chemicals present in the "Standard American Diet."




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