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  • What’s Lashmet’s “Hunger Switch” Stock?

    Stansberry Venture Value pick hints lead to an obesity drug company whose "only competition is itself"

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  • Friday File: NVIDIA by the Fingernails, Gold (and other shiny things), Energy Storage and more…

    What do Polish groceries, Ferraris, Giant Batteries, Mine Disasters and John Maynard Keynes have in common? Well, not much, but they're all in this week's Friday File... along with a trade or two.

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  • Hernias, COVID, Obesity Drugs and Medicare Negotiation

    November 2023 Updates from Doc Gumshoe

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  • Answers: “The Ultimate Weight Loss Drug” teased by Eifrig’s Prosperity Investor

    Finally, we take a short break from the A.I. mania to look at something else… this is the start of the pitch from Stansberry for Dr. David Eifrig’s Prosperity Investor(special deal is $2,500 for two years), with the ad introduced by Thomas Carroll, one of the analysts for that letter (John Engel is the other, […]

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  • COVID-19: Looking Both Ways

    Checking up on COVID and Long Covid... plus some interesting news about Wegovy

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  • Weight and Waistline Worries

    Doc Gumshoe on BMI, Obesity and the latest wave of "weight loss" drugs

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  • Short Bits for November

    Doc Gumshoe with some updates on COVID-19, the polypill, diabetes, opioids and pain management, and more...

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  • written by reader 2 Biotechs with a possible obesity drug patent??

    I saw a tease while I was on the treadmill in the Gym (I think it was on Fox Business?) for two biotechs with a possible obesity patent? I know there have probably been hundreds of them but can’t hurt to ask/research. Thanks! Steve

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  • Thinkolator answers: What’s Lashmet’s “Biggest Drug in the World?”

    New Stansberry ad teases that "This will likely be the first ever $1 trillion drug"

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  • Thanksgiving Left-Overs 2021

    Doc Gumshoe with updates on Alzheimer's Disease, obesity risks, vitamin D and more...

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  • What’s “The 20X Weight Loss Drug?” Looking into Lashmet’s New Teaser Pitch for Stansberry Venture Technology

    Checking into a teased anti-obesity drug that's not yet in the "mainstream headlines"

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  • Is There a Link Between the Microbes in Your Gut and Managing Your Weight?

    Doc Gumshoe looks at an obesity-fighting pitch

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  • written by reader The Zed Files

    The New Metabolomics, First in a Series

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  • written by reader Guaranteed Weight Loss without Surgery, Drugs or Dieting! (Really!)

    But Is This Biotech a Good Investment?

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  • written by reader Tidings, Mostly Glad

    Stocking stuffers and some brief comments from Doc Gumshoe

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  • What’s Patrick Cox’s New Obesity-Fighting Teaser Drug Stock?

    Sleuthifying out the answer to the "How to Build Lasting Wealth from a True Weight Loss Breakthrough" report teased by Breakthrough Technology Alert

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  • Another cure for obesity is to come to Japan and live here for a long time and eat Japanese food every day. and stay awa...

  • Hi Guys Any thoughts on these two obesity players ALTIMMUNE INC (ALT) TERNS PHARMACEUTICALS (TERN) They seem to have...

  • The "cure" for obesity is simple: quit eating $#!+ food and gain some discipline and personal responsibility. But no, t...

  • From AMJC: "While sugary beverages have been linked to diabetes and obesity, the evidence has been mixed on diet drinks....

  • It is truly scary the power of lobbying. When a little history would show when obesity took hold in the USofA and how th...

  • Yeah, it's a conundrum -- same with the Alzheimer's Disease drugs, which could destroy the economics of Medicare. There...

  • I am in on this. I have some experience with the drug and it is an absolute game changer. Such a different experience fr...

  • "Follow the Money"How Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Make a Killing Off the Childhood Obesity Epidemichttps://ch...

  • Doc Gumshoe, you've done a very good job of summarizing the options and issues regarding the recent additions to treatme...

  • Looks like you had awfully good timing, with their Alzheimer's drug results helping spike the shares higher! Expensive ...

  • Speaking of obesity drugs, RYTM has finally recovered above where i bought it....

  • Haven't dug deep in either, my sense is that both LLY and NVO are expensive, but justifiably so, because of the massive ...

  • travis quick question on nvo it has made quite a climb - what do you see down the road with them - i know lilly is supp...

  • We are still in a Covid pandemic? What is the definition of a pandemic. Died of Covid or with Covid. Are there any d...

  • This from yesterday's newsletter, already public, first mainstream report about Tirzepatide trial results. From the Gua...

  • Just yesterday, May 9th, JAMA Neurology posted a paper confirming that eight modifiable risk factors were linked to more...

  • Interesting response with respect to the genetic components responsible for obesity. As mentioned, I agree there is a h...

  • This class of drug , if indeed a semiglutide version,, stimulates incretin receptors with the side effect of delayed gas...

  • I’ve thought that the fundamental reason weight loss medicines fail in practice is that the control of weight gain in...

  • You’re not going to cure a decades-long obesity epidemic in a year… but with vaccination, you can beat down a viral ...

  • "Severe COVID-19 patients have higher BMI than non-severe ones". https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.26...

  • Can you show me one example of Biden, Fauci, etc. speaking about the relation between obesity and negative Covid outcom...

  • Shamefully, it's likely that the USA death count has been influenced by financial incentives to 'call the cause', if you...

  • Question about correlations in regard to Covid vaccines and deaths. Vermont with a high vaccination rate and 0 deaths ...

  • Does anyone know anything about Karolinska Development AB (KDEVF) There is an article in Science Daily that Karolinska...

  • I don't think Lashmet mentioned RYTM this time. It was a COVID related deal in the beginning, obesity being the conditi...

  • "No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without s...

  • From all the information presented by the mass media and government concerning Covid, I have seen nothing about stre...

  • They reported some results yesterday -- a third of people in the trial experienced weight loss of 5% in three months for...

  • That's what the company has been saying in presentations and filings all along, their focus is clearly on genetic disord...

  • I would not own this stock at any level now that the CEO has confirmed that the drug cannot be used for the general publ...

  • All, the CEO was presenting at the Morgan Stanley healthcare conference a couple of weeks ago. I was streaming online an...

  • Cartero, As Travis, elesido, ell and other Gumshoe folks have reported, RYTM addresses ultra-rare pediatric obes...

  • Travis mentioned at the beginning of his commentary that Rhythym's IPO filings in late 2017 referred to "initial studie...

  • That is the very big question. Drugs are often focused on a small and targeted group first, because that's a far easier...

  • Remember, this is being developed for specific genetic abnormalities....not general obesity. RSH, MSc, RPh...

  • I am generally with you and think that "eat less, drink only water, do more sports" is the best cure for overweight peo...

  • Does anyone here find it disheartening that a drug is necessary to "cure" obesity? Wouldn't it be easier to just stop e...

  • Thanks for the Friday update, Travis! Has the Thinkolator tackled the Obesity Drug (by David Lashnet)?...

  • What a "story stock"! This could be huge. Stansberry sent out an email Sunday morning, 8.30.20, promoting this Obe...

  • If they are able to fast track this drug using the tools FDA has for rare diseases, and then use it, with FDA clearance,...

  • Injections are nasty indeed. This is why I bought a few shares of Oramed (ORMP) which seems to be in final testing stag...

  • Thanks to Author/Editor: Dave Lashmet for reading and going through this long and tedious Stansberry stock tip/newslette...

  • That's the big question. Lashmet sees the breadcrumbs to this being prescribed for general obesity, either very soon of...

  • Child obesity going and picking up my grand kids from school I noticed a definite change in kids weight. They have stopp...

  • Danish Novo Nordisk is a specialist in diabetes drugs, which have a link to obesity, and its trials are doing well. You ...

  • Travis thanks for the reveal on Rhythm I had come to the same conclusion but like you I don’t have the bench depth to...

  • I don't think ENTA is it. Their research is in Fatty Liver disease not cause by alcohol. The other research refers to ...

  • Travis, could you please investigate the obesity drug company that Dave Lashmet is hinting about for Stansbury Research?...

  • Yes. So true!!But society has been brainwashed by BIG pharma to 'think' otherwise. Obesity (or the NEW gigantism) in...

  • Great that advances are being made but as long as the US remains addicted to sugar and processed foods, jet fuel for dia...

  • The trouble is that curtailing smoking for valid health reasons has in part resulted in an epidemic of obesity - all th...

  • Obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancer are all metabolic diseases which can be prevented/reversed by a well formulated keto...

  • Indeed Sears does some weird stuff one would want to pass up but in general at least he gets his patients healthy. Meanw...

  • Restaurant menu labeling is coming. Studies show it reduces average number of calories ordered by 30-50 calories. http:/...

  • I am a firm believer in the value of the Primary Care Physician to the overall health care "system" (ironic laugh here)....

  • Primate fetal hepatic responses to maternal obesity: epigenetic signalling pathways and lipid accumulation http://onlin...

  • The power of #music on the #brain. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXt6LTaXkAAAQ71.jpgty https://twitter.com/LEAD_Coali...

  • $ZFGN fp - March 6, 2018 4:05 PM EST Zafgen Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Financial Results; Announces Posi...

  • Current 2018 US Death Toll: Abortion - 137,080 Tobacco -43,934 Obesity - 38.537 Medical Error - 31,565 Alcohol - 12...

  • First peptide to enter clinic mid 1028. Activity read-out early 2019 with regard to NASH and to obesity.After 50 we ...

  • $Lump/Helen/Eyedoc Kudos, I couldn't have said it better myself. Gary, very succinct and poignant. I agree with you 100...

  • Not categorically. But in the right context (obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome) yes, naturally it is quite...

  • $ARTH - Internal trial should start in Ireland in the June quarter. KSS is 100% sure that they have a large contract man...

  • A current perspective on $ZFGN is that analysts mostly have left it for dead and that bona fide insider ownership (using...

  • $ZFGN: Just wanted to bring to peoples attention that ZFGN has been quietly rising and has gone up by 30% in the last mo...

  • Alcoholic liver disease will shortly overtake ischaemic heart disease with regard to years of working life lost. The ris...

  • Doc Thank you for knowledgeable insight. I have long seen that childhood obesity becomes a life long problem....

  • Yes, it's a prevalent notion.....diminished fecal biome diversity, as can be driven by antibiotics, is strongly linked t...

  • $ZFGNWow...good question. Are they too late? You would really need to drill down on Hatfield. A deep dive to gain co...

  • $CWBR $ZFGNI have also loaded up on CWBR but also continue to hold ZFGN. I reviewed this article from just a month...

  • $CWBR Long & OW ... Obesity market potential article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-04/why-big-pha...

  • $CWBR (long)I was confused by this tweet:"$CWBR will target #AD #AMD #NASH, ASHD, Diabetes, Obesity, & Stati...

  • $CWBR Follow this person on Twitter for all the CWBR research--amazing$CWBR's Genetic Rx for Obesity - to be previe...

  • $CWBRCOHBAR INC (OTCMKTS:CWBR) Pushing The Limits Of Life Through Mitochondria Research10/14/17Mitochondria ...

  • $CWBR Obesity NashGo look at Page 16 Reduces Liver FatLook at slide 3 CohBar CB4209--Doc almost fell out of his ...

  • $CWBRAn interesting new research report that lends further support for the rationale of CohBar’s lead assets, CB42...

  • So Les you are getting thumbs down. Pathetic !! We need a new KSS world.LesExactly right on !! That is exactly ...

  • $metforminHi Roger,I have been taking metformin now for a few months with minimal issues. It is a very regularl...

  • Malignant Opiophobia is a cultural condition unique to US culture. We insist on seeing harm where none is occurring. ...

  • Re: $ZGNX and fenfluramine. The withdrawal of fenfluramine REALLY irked me. Fen/phen was a magic combination. The only w...

  • hi Doc your concerns about fenfluramine $ZGNX were there "However, fenfluramine was withdrawn from global markets in 1...

  • $RYTMIf you click on the pipeline link, you will see they are researching 4 ultra-rare causes of obesity: 1.Pro-opi...

  • $RYTM - Peptide-Based Biotech Rhythm Pharmaceuticals sets therms for $100 Million IPO September 25, 2017 Rhythm Pharm...

  • $Fasting on $microbiotaIntermittent Fasting Promotes White Adipose Browning and Decreases Obesity by Shaping the Gu...

  • The whole question of a study using nurses or nuns as a subject appears specious to me. They are not peas in a pod. We...

  • $ZFGNCancer-induced anorexia inspires potentially powerful antiobesity drug By Ryan CrossAug. 30, 2017 , 1:54 PM ...

  • #Obesity - Energy dense foods may increase cancer risk regardless of obesity status - Scienmag #EnergyDense foods ht...

  • Arch, Long $ZFGN. My understanding of ZGN 1061 is it also diverts more calories to energy and tells the body to store le...

  • Re $ZFGN, which I am still holding, If I understand correctly the means of weight control being pursued involves jiggeri...

  • As a Zafgan investor I note the Novo N has a couple of entries into the field per today's Endpoint News: Can Novo’s b...

  • Engineered Epidermal Progenitor Cells Can Correct Diet-Induced Obesity and Diabetes http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/f...

  • Study: Loneliness, Social Isolation Greater Health Problem In US Than Obesity https://www.studyfinds.org/loneliness-so...

  • $ZFGN (relevance)"Thrombin promotes diet-induced obesity through fibrin-driven inflammation" (8/1/2017)Obesity ...

  • $ZFGN (relevance)"Thrombin promotes diet-induced obesity through fibrin-driven inflammation" (8/1/2017)Obesity ...

  • Small molecule "hunger hormone" inhibitor;https://scienmag.com/biochemists-link-synthetic-compound-to-hunger-hormone...

  • Thanks Helen for a very interesting read especially with Diabetes and obesity tied in with Dementia. Cheers,Glenn...

  • $Diabetes $Obesity $Alzheimers Disease"Common neurodegenerative pathways in obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disea...

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