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Except the post they responded to specifically called out HIV-associated lipohypertrophy and the post you are responding to pointed out that the issues being tackled are not unique to HIV-associated lipohypertrophy.

More than 70% of Americans are overweight. That's a pretty overwhelming majority. Most of the Western world and significant portions of the Eastern world are trending in the same direction.

The point is that this can be generalized to a whole lot of people, not just those with HIV.

And there are other causes of inflammation besides just being overweight, and the GLP-1s reduce inflammation basically immediately, even with no weight loss.





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