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The Great Ozempic Hustle
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com ^ | Sep 19, 2024 | A Midwestern Doctor

Posted on 01/06/2025 8:18:51 AM PST by bitt

The GLP-1 saga epitomizes the unsustainable corruption within our medical system

Story at a Glance:

•In early 2023, a private conference with pharmaceutical industry leaders and investors highlighted anti-obesity and Alzheimer’s drugs as the next big money-makers and had the FDA head as its keynote speaker.

•Since then, the FDA has taken questionable steps to promote these drugs, particularly Ozempic, an anti-obesity medication. There's been a massive push to get everyone, including children, on Ozempic, using shockingly aggressive marketing tactics.

•This rush is eerily similar to the fen-phen craze, a temporary weight loss drug later pulled from the market for causing severe heart and lung issues.

•Worse, Ozempic comes with serious side effects, including paralyzing the digestive tract. This article will address the above controversy and explore the common causes of obesity, including those rarely discussed.

Note: recently Comedian Jimmy Dore and Food Activist Calley Means discussed The Great Ozempic Scam, an article recently published here. Their interview added a few critical points to this story, so I am publishing an abridged version of the article beginning with their interview.

6 min video

Most of the food in America comes from just a few crops like corn, wheat, soy, and canola, largely due to farming subsidies that force farmers to mass-produce these crops and sell them below cost. These cheap crops are then turned into the processed foods we eat every day. This is problematic because:

Health Issues: These foods are unhealthy and contribute to major health problems like diabetes and obesity.

Natural Aversion: Our bodies naturally resist these foods, making them hard to sell.

Addictive Additives: To make them more appealing, addictive substances are added. In the 1980s, Big Tobacco bought the processed food industry and, much like they did with cigarettes, focused on making these foods as addictive as possible.

Chronic Illness: The resulting health issues create lifelong customers for industries like Big Pharma.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; dietinjections; fda; healthmyths; healthrisks; iwbg; ozempic
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To: BobL

This is a large part of the reason I grow my own and can or freeze as much of it as possible


21 posted on 01/06/2025 8:57:13 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: bitt

bkmk


22 posted on 01/06/2025 8:59:46 AM PST by sauropod ("You didn't take a country. You only won a football game!" - Dan Dakich Ne supra crepidam)
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To: bitt

I know a few diabetics, but I know no one who was prescribed these drugs for that (or anything else FTM). Supposedly, this weight loss thing was found as a side effect.

It just seems strange to me.


23 posted on 01/06/2025 9:00:36 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Freee-dame
Why can’t people just change their eating and exercising habits during the time that they lose the initial large amount of weight and then keep up with the new habits after they go off of the drug? This is a serious question.

Because they don't want to. It's *too hard*.

My sister is obese and diabetic and knows how to lose the weight but just can't be bothered. She's still single and figures she has no one to lose the weight for.

That's an excuse because she could do it for herself to control her diabetes and cut her risk of losing limbs, going blind, and having kidney failure. But even that doesn't seem to be enough motivation for her to do it.

It's easier to keep eating as she is and use the medicine, and spend a fortune on diabetes meds.

24 posted on 01/06/2025 9:02:50 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: metmom

“If it hasn’t permanently, or long term paralyzed your digestive tract.”

indeed ... in fact, GLP-1’s function by INDUCING gastroparesis ... the big issue of course is if gastroparesis becomes permanent, even when the drugs are stopped ...

my nephew’s wife had this happen as an organic disease before GLP-1’s were even heard of, and it was a HORRIBLE disease ... she EVENTUALLY recovered, but hearing her ordeal made me decide to never risk taking a drug than can cause this condition ...


25 posted on 01/06/2025 9:02:53 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman
... you have to take them the rest of your life because the minute you stop, you’ll soon gain all the lost weight back!

Isn't that true of ALL weight loss regimens?

Not that I support these new drugs at all, as I think they're unproven long term.

26 posted on 01/06/2025 9:03:50 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: catnipman

I met one lady who was asking for prayer once for a similar issue. She went in for a colonoscopy and her intestines never started back up right after that.

Being constipated is no fun. I can’t imagine living like that all the time.


27 posted on 01/06/2025 9:04:25 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: BobL

Best diet is your Grandmother’s “diet” - (not a diet)

small amounts of meat (family of 8 would share one small chicken)
garden vegetables or stuff they canned
butter, cream, cheese, milk
breads

remember when an orange in your stocking was a big deal? (because oranges were out of season..)


28 posted on 01/06/2025 9:06:13 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Spoke with my neighbor yesterday. He was on Ozempic for 2.5 months without any problems. He lost 30 lbs. Stopped Ozempic. Gained 5 back due to Christmastime eating. During Ozempic, he was eating healthier with more large salads. He continues this healthier diet. He feels the 30lbs are off for good.


29 posted on 01/06/2025 9:08:57 AM PST by dennisw
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To: bitt

I have heard that Ozempic can cause blindness. In the wake of CoViD and the medicine hustle connected, one wonders if such a side effect was minimized or even hidden.


30 posted on 01/06/2025 9:09:18 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: bitt

Don’t tell me, they added “added sugar” on top of “total sugar”. Read packaging cause that’s exactly how they describe it!


31 posted on 01/06/2025 9:22:03 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: maddog55

The interesting thing I have notice about this drug is the results aren’t one bit different from actual lifestyle change.

Reduce calories you will lose weight.


32 posted on 01/06/2025 9:22:47 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: metmom

Yeah. I guess it’s THAT easy.


33 posted on 01/06/2025 9:24:49 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: bitt

I suppose there’s something in there somewhere about Ozempic. It’s possible. Saw that word in the headline.


34 posted on 01/06/2025 9:28:38 AM PST by TalBlack (Time to use the Law and the Power. Good luck Mr. President.)
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To: bitt
This rush is eerily similar to the fen-phen craze

What are the eery similarities?

35 posted on 01/06/2025 9:31:53 AM PST by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: bitt
Addictive Additives: To make them more appealing, addictive substances are added.

I have suspected this for a long time. Every time I make Hamburger Helper no mater how much I eat I never get full.

I know it's death on a stick but it tastes so yummy and yes I'm 25 pounds over weight.

36 posted on 01/06/2025 9:32:34 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: bitt

“corn, wheat, soy, and canola ... are unhealthy”

Hmm.

“contribute to major health problems like diabetes and obesity.”

I think eating too much is what causes most diabetes and obesity.


37 posted on 01/06/2025 9:33:17 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Vermont Lt

It’s simple.

I never said it was easy.

But the highly processed foods that way too many people eat and the sedentary lifestyle most people live sure doesn’t help.

So doing more for yourself is a better option than being a slug and depending on big pharma to to to keep you healthy, until they discover all the side effects of using their meds.

And their track record isn’t very good.


38 posted on 01/06/2025 9:36:33 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: dennisw

I know a man who has lost 60 pounds by cutting out snacks, soda, junk and fast food, and working out at the gym ONCE a week.

And he’s aiming to lose more.

He also said that occasionally now he’ll have a soda or snacks and now cannot stand the taste. His taste buds have been reconditioned to real food. And not 1200 calorie a day, eat like a rabbit diet. Just ordinary food, without the highly processed HFCS laden junk.


39 posted on 01/06/2025 9:39:10 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Freee-dame
Why can’t people just change their eating and exercising habits during the time that they lose the initial large amount of weight and then keep up with the new habits after they go off of the drug? This is a serious question.

Because not everyone is overweight because of poor diet and/or lack of exercise.

While it gets virtually no press, we are in an epidemic of overweight people who really don't eat all that much.

This is not to say that there aren't fat people who bring it on themselves...I am looking at one of my employees who weighs over 300 pounds and who brought a fast food breakfast AND two bags of Hostess donuts to work with her this morning. I have other overweight friends who guzzle full sugar coke and seem to live on fast food and snacks.

My son was a bit overweight. He stopped drinking alcohol and lost 25 pounds in a couple of months.

With that being said, there is a growing number of people who are heavy with no clear cause. My doctor admitted he was stumped, but it is outside his expertise. He sent me to a bariatric doctor, but she doesn't understand the why, she basically treats the symptoms...mostly dispensing drugs that make you eat less. If you already eat less, they don't work very well.

40 posted on 01/06/2025 9:50:56 AM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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