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Are weight-loss meds the next wonder drugs?
FreeThink ^ | May 13, 2024 | Kristin Houser

Posted on 05/13/2024 12:18:35 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 05/13/2024 12:18:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I take Mounjaro. For diabetes and sleep apnea.

I have read about most of these effects previously. But there are also negative effects associated with this type of drug. Why doesn’t the article take a balanced approach by discussing those as well?


2 posted on 05/13/2024 12:32:31 PM PDT by TheConservator (To bar Trump from the presidency, libtards are happy to trash 235 years the rule of law)
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To: Red Badger
If the COVID-19 vaccines were the most significant FDA approvals of the 2020s so far...

Stopped reading there.

3 posted on 05/13/2024 12:51:39 PM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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Though these drugs have been used to treat type 2 diabetes for nearly two decades, it wasn’t until 2021 that the FDA approved one of them — Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) — as a treatment for obesity.

Ah, interesting. I keep hearing ads for a clinic that prescribes semaglutide at half the cost of Wegovy. I wondered how they can do that, if they are selling semaglutide and not some "supplement" they claim does the same thing. But I think this answers my question. Since the drugs have been around a long time, they must have lost their patent protection. So now, generics can be sold.

4 posted on 05/13/2024 12:51:59 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: TheConservator

If I remember correctly, many years ago, you could buy what was practically speed OTC for weight loss.


5 posted on 05/13/2024 12:53:27 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: Red Badger

At least they aren’t saying it’s all the preprocessed crap and junk food everybody eats now, There were NO FAT kids when I was growing up, today it is the norm.


6 posted on 05/13/2024 1:01:00 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Yep, kids ate good food and played OUTSIDE.

Now they sit in their rooms, eat junk food and play video games, cruise social media platforms and watch videos.......................


7 posted on 05/13/2024 1:10:31 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
1-800-BAD-DRUG

I have no affiliation whatsoever with this organization. I used to watch a lot of late-night TV ...

8 posted on 05/13/2024 1:14:40 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

PSA:

Do not take the Brown Acid!... Repeat, Do Not Take The Brown Acid!.......................


9 posted on 05/13/2024 1:16:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MikeSteelBe

Dexatrim. Haha! We all bought it at the K&B. Total speed.


10 posted on 05/13/2024 1:17:54 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: Red Badger
"Now they sit in their rooms, eat junk food and play video games, cruise social media platforms and watch videos...."

which is why our birthrate has gotten so low and we can't replace ourselves and why our whole demographic will in a few more yrs will not be white Christian....

11 posted on 05/13/2024 1:19:47 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Red Badger

FWIW I’ve been on this for close to a year now IIRC. I’ve lost ~60lbs and still going. Much slower now. It works great. I was a hunger-crazed-food-addict.(+1 to ya if ya know that reference). Now I hafta remember to eat and eat wayyyy less when I do.. Wasn’t that hard, either. But the biggest hurdle was right between muh ears. As usual.. 🙄😎👌


12 posted on 05/13/2024 1:23:25 PM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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I take MJ as well. My A1C is down to under 6 for the first time in my life.

There are side effects. They pretty much run the gamut, but I’ve not “suffered” many, and not too intense.

My doctor had been trying to prescribe this for me for a while now. I finally went along with it after doing some research.

The problem today is getting your hands on it. My insurance limits it to one month at a time, and I often go a week to two weeks between my last shot and the next one.


13 posted on 05/13/2024 1:28:01 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Red Badger

Pong came out when I was in High School, but it didn’t matter since we weren’t allowed to sit around at home, go play with your friends or WORK around the House, bye, see ya for dinner.


14 posted on 05/13/2024 1:39:44 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok
There were NO FAT kids when I was growing up, today it is the norm.


15 posted on 05/13/2024 1:44:28 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

Isn’t Meth a Weight-Loss Drug?

Put some ads on TV about Meth.

Show some skinny, toothless happy weight-loss customers.


16 posted on 05/13/2024 1:54:38 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT.)
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side-effects galore, many VERY serious such as PERMANENT gastroparesis, AND you have to take these drugs the rest of your life OR you’ll regain the lost weight, AND these drugs can easily cost as much as $18,000 per year!


17 posted on 05/13/2024 2:32:04 PM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: exDemMom

Semeglutide at half the cost of Wegovy is probably a compounded version. It would still be as effective but without the patented pen delivery much cheaper


18 posted on 05/13/2024 2:34:21 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA (No longer in VA. Living the OBX life now!)
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To: Red Badger

“Yep, kids ate good food and played OUTSIDE. Now they sit in their rooms, eat junk food and play video games, cruise social media platforms and watch videos”

this advertisement perfectly sums up what you said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UntdGA7gH3Q&t=5s


19 posted on 05/13/2024 2:38:16 PM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: CopperTop

Wow, that is quite the success story. Congratulations!

I have read recent reports that people must continue to take the semaglutide in order to maintain the weight loss permanently. But is that really a problem if you tolerate the drug well?


20 posted on 05/19/2024 6:35:39 AM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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