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'Rogaine' in a Pill? Oral Minoxidil Aces Major Hair Loss Trial (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 18 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I meaaan, Paracetamol goes through the same process and it lowers headaches.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Another example:

    Ozempic gets injected into subcutaneous fat and works its way through the body, via the liver and heart, to alter the glp hormones in your pancreas and brain.

    I'm sure we could think of lots of other examples where drugs are administered somewhere else to affect different areas.

    OPs argument is as ignorant as flat-earth theorists.

    Edit: and this shows this thread is a sausage-fest, as nobody mentioned either the pill or the morning-after pill which I'm sure most women would have probably said instantly.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Whoever takes Ozempic is basically a lab rat at this stage. No short term issues have been observed but we don't know the long term effects.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    All medication has the possibility of side effects.

    In the 20 years GLP-1 medication has been used by type-2 diabetes patients (because that's who they were really for), there have been more positives than negatives. Simple as that. There are side effects but those are better than the well-documented side effects of type-2 (e.g. cardiovascular disease, kidneys, eyes and feet, including the possibility of amputation. And that's before we get into the social stigma of being morbidly obese, the mental health issues associated with that and the social isolation that often comes with it).bb

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The. You just proved my point, we have no idea how paracetamol actually works, after 130years of study.

    https://www.livescience.com/health/we-may-finally-know-how-tylenol-works-and-its-not-how-we-thought

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    If we don't know how those processes work but we know the effect they cause, how can you so confidently say that the hair growth thing is BS? Knowing how it works is besides the point, if we know the effect it causes and it being ingested, how can you call bullshit to another thing having an effect in a different part of our body than where it's introduced?

    I didn't prove your point and I'm sorry to learn you think I did.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    And you shouldn't munch them too often because they do go through the liver etc.

    OP has a point IMO.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    What does that have to do with the fact that a pill being ingested has no direct relation with the place it has an effect on? That's the point I was trying to imply, thus countering the point OP was making.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    IMO OP has a point as the delivery mechanism already exists (smearing it on the head) so making it take the longer way through our inner organs is, if not "bullshit" probably less good, as just smearing it has proven dangerous.

    Maybe I just think nobody can be that stupid and believe eating a pill can't do something to the head.

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