{"id":67475,"date":"2026-10-05T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67475"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:30:25","slug":"silencing-the-alarm-why-glp-1-drugs-are-the-most-expensive-way-ever-devised-to-ignore-the-root-cause-of-metabolic-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67475","title":{"rendered":"Silencing the Alarm: Why GLP-1 Drugs Are the Most Expensive Way Ever Devised to Ignore the Root Cause of Metabolic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GLP-1_and_Smoke_Alarm.jpg\" alt=\"GLP-1 and Smoke Alarm\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GLP-1_and_Smoke_Alarm.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GLP-1_and_Smoke_Alarm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GLP-1_and_Smoke_Alarm-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GLP-1_and_Smoke_Alarm-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A lifelong prescription for a problem no one is trying to solve: a root-cause and risk-benefit reckoning<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sayerji.substack.com\/p\/silencing-the-alarm-why-glp-1-drugs\">https:\/\/sayerji.substack.com\/p\/silencing-the-alarm-why-glp-1-drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lifelong prescription for a problem no one is trying to solve: a root-cause and risk-benefit reckoning https:\/\/sayerji.substack.com\/p\/silencing-the-alarm-why-glp-1-drugs &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67477,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475\/revisions\/67477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}