The noise was the signal

Something strange has been happening to people on Ozempic.

They stop thinking about food constantly. They lose interest in alcohol. They find violent impulses quieter. They describe their old compulsions not as suppressed but as absent — like a background hum they'd forgotten was there until it stopped.

Three different categories of behavior — eating, drinking, aggression — all quieted by the same drug. That's not a side effect profile. That's a pattern.

The obvious framing is that GLP-1 agonists are suppressing desire. But I think that's wrong, and the distinction matters more than it sounds.

Here's the test I'd run: if GLP-1 drugs were suppressing desire broadly, they'd flatten everything. Hunger would go away. But that's not what people report. Appetite doesn't vanish — it normalizes. People still get hungry. They eat, feel satisfied, stop. What disappears is the intrusive quality: the obsessive return to food thoughts, the craving that arrives when you're not hungry, the noise.