[TheConservator]

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?

[rarestia]

If the COVID-19 vaccines were the most significant FDA approvals of the 2020s so far...

Stopped reading there.

[exDemMom]

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.

[eyeamok]

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.

[NorthMountain]

1-800-BAD-DRUG

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

[CopperTop]

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.. 🙄😎👌

[Scrambler Bob]

Isn’t Meth a Weight-Loss Drug?

Put some ads on TV about Meth.

Show some skinny, toothless happy weight-loss customers.

[catnipman]

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!

[Mr. Jeeves]

I just came back from Tokyo. Stayed near the busiest train station in the world. The whole time I saw maybe three fat people.

Pretty clear the answer does not lie in bizarre new drugs.