See: “Weight Loss Drug” Causing Stomach Paralysis (Drugs to Change Behavior are an Insane Concept)

If the drugs you’re taking are making you fat – don’t worry.

We have drugs for that.

Reuters:

U.S. psychiatrists are increasingly prescribing the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy to patients who gain weight from medicines used to treat mental disorders, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, according to Reuters interviews with ten prescribers across the country.

Many antipsychotic drugs and mood stabilizers can cause patients to gain significant weight and contribute to diabetes and heart disease, the leading cause of death among adults with schizophrenia.

Complicated by other factors such as inadequate access to healthy food and lower physical activity, over half of patients with bipolar depression and schizophrenia are overweight or obese.

Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy is self-injected once a week and has been shown to help patients lose around 15% of their body weight, making it the most effective treatment available.

“It’s been a real welcome addition …. for people who truly have endured significant weight gain because of atypical antipsychotics and have doggedly tried their best to overcome that,” said Dr. Joseph Goldberg, a professor of psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

Wegovy received U.S. approval as an obesity treatment in June 2021, while Mounjaro, a similar drug from Eli Lilly, is expected to be authorized this year. New rivals are also in development.

The global market for weight-loss drugs is forecast to reach as much as $100 billion within the decade.

Yet the best use of such drugs among patients with psychiatric diagnoses is just beginning to be understood.

Beyond severe mental health disorders, other patients struggling with obesity tend to suffer from mental health issues like depression and anxiety at higher levels than the general population, studies show.

Clinical trials for Wegovy, which belongs to a class of drugs known as GLP-1 agonists that began as diabetes medicines, excluded psychiatric patients, a common practice in drug development.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cautioned doctors to monitor patients taking the drug for development of depression or suicidal thoughts. Regulators in Europe are now investigating several reports of patients who experienced suicidal thoughts after starting Wegovy.

It is like a science fiction novel.

And if you were an amateur, you’d reference Huxley.

I wouldn’t blame you.

If you were more of a pro, however, you’d probably reference Burgess.

We really need to bring back Burgess.

His criticism is worth more than… well, it’s worth more than anything Julian ever wrote.

I’m not going to insult Aldous.

Julian, however, was much more political, and much more… crappy.

For people trying to learn to read novels, maybe try “The Wanting Seed.”

It made a big impression on me.

I think it’s probably better than…

Well, it’s better than the Clockwork Orange.

I’m not ready to say it is better than A Brave New World.

I would have to really go back, as a man pushing 40-years-old, and re-examine these novels on a serious level.

Following reports of self-injury and suicidal thoughts among a small number of people who’ve taken Ozempic or Wegovy in Europe and the UK, health regulators are investigating whether the drugs carry a risk of these side effects. https://t.co/vHjgbUeRKy

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 1, 2023

Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article. 

Richard Spencer’s Radix Journal continues to become more and more relevant.  I now find myself reading it several times a week.

This week, they have a particularly poignant article by Alex Fontana up entitled “Jung’s Dangerous Theory” which deals with Carl Jung’s Antisemitism. I highly encourage everyone to check it out.

It begins with a quote from Jung, which could just as easily have been said by any figure in history to have been directly exposed to Jews as a group:

The Jew who is something of a nomad has never yet created a cultural form of his own and as far as we can see never will, since all his instincts and talents require a more or less civilized nation to act as host for their development. The Jews have this peculiarity with women; being physically weaker, they have to aim at the chinks in the armour of their adversary.

The article goes on to touch on the manner in which the Jews fit into Jung’s metaphysical system, as well as the way modern Jews have attempted to skew Jung’s positions on the Jew

Fontana writes of the way Jews interpreted Jung’s antisemitism:

When you have the eyes to see these intellectual games, you begin to wonder whether every text written by a Jew should be required to undergo a scholastic inquisition. All contemporary Jewish texts seem to rotate around Auschwitz as some transcendent celestial law which verifies their every platitude. As Jung himself believed that the Jewish psyche inherently manifests itself in their works due to the weight of four thousand years, the Jew, even a self-hating, liberal, or reform Jew cannot but carry the hallmarks of their complexes, which impregnate even innocuous venues.

He goes on to discuss the relationship between Jung and the Jew Freud, before closing thusly:

It is beyond a doubt that Jung harbored feelings and opinions of Jews which are less than ambiguous; certainly, there are those like Drob, who try to downplay and legitimize Jung’s anti-Semitism–revise it and pretend that it was a psychological technique. However, Jung’s anti-Semitism was multifaceted–for personal reasons (his relationship with Freud and the Jews of the Vienna Circle), and for supra-personal, theoretical and historical reasons (not unlike Heidegger). The most dangerous aspect of Jung’s views is that they may inevitably garner the question: How come so many notable gentiles are anti-Semitic?

I encourage everyone to visit Radix, and show support for the general direction the site is moving in.

I don’t think there was ever any question about Spencer’s understanding of the Jew, it just seemed for a time that he believed taking the Jared Taylor route would be more effective. However, someone already took the Jared Taylor route, and accomplished virtually nothing – his name was Jared Taylor.

Though the Daily Stormer definitely has a different target audience than Spencer, we absolutely need people with Spencer’s orientation, and I am very happy to see that he is apparently beginning to realize that one can be both intellectual and Antisemitic. Featuring profiles of Antisemitic intellectuals in history is a good way of signalling this change of heart.

I would remind the reader that after the “Hungary Like the Wolf: Budapest Shakedown 2014” debacle, Spencer has decided to host a conference in Washington, DC, where people still have freedom. The conference is on February 27, and at time of writing there are only 63 tickets left.

Jared Taylor will be speaking at this conference. Unlike Peter Brimelow, who is also speaking at the conference, Taylor has not remained noncommittal on the Jew question, but has in fact been outspokenly pro-Jew, declaring that Jews are White people, and has often featured a majority Jewish speakers at his AmRen conferences. He eventually banned David Duke from speaking at his conferences, due to Duke’s Antisemitism.

It will be interesting to see if there is a break between Spencer and Taylor over disagreement about whether or not we should be addressing the world’s foremost problem, or instead pretending it doesn’t exist and talking in circles forever about how stupid Blacks are.