Originally Posted by ceberezin

This drug is less than useless. If it blocks only dietary fat, it doesn't do a damn thing about fat from de novo lipogenesis, so while your anus is leaking, you still have high triglycerides and lots of adipose tissue.

Dietary fat is the primary source of beneficial and essential fatty acids, while fat from de novo lipogenesis is primarily palmitate. So this drug would increase the proportion of palmitate in our bodies and suppress beneficial and essential fatty acids.