Will Ozempic Become The Hottest New Workplace Benefit?

Forbes ^ | May 09, 2025 | Caroline Castrillon

[Organic Panic]

Could just eat less.... It doesn’t cost $1300 a week either.

[Seruzawa]

Wait til you see the “side effects” a few years down the line.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Could just eat less.... It doesn’t cost $1300 a week either.

It also doesn't work. America is the most obese nation in human history, and it hasn't been because people haven't been trying to eat less.

[foundedonpurpose]

And God forbid healthy food. Drop the cheese puffs.

[9YearLurker]

I wouldn’t want to take on that liability.

[pburgh01]

2022....285lbs at 5'9', sugar at 190, AC-1 terrible, on 4 BP meds, Insulin resistant, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease with a 4 cm pocket of fat in my liver. My labs were awful, from my good cholesterol to liver function and aforementioned sugar issues. Irritable bowel issues. I was at a 42" waist and XXL shirts. Your basic calorie counting, white knuckle dieting, walking 5 times a week fat American.

Fast forwad after my doc put my on Monjourno....Today 155lbs, Size 28" waist, on no meds at all for anything, NAFDL gone, sugar at 90, AC-1 great, tons of energy, sex drive through the roof. My diet instantly improved as my cravings for sugar and carbs fell through the floor. No more IBS at all. My diet now lots of fresh fruits and veg, grass fed meat, organic chicken and pork, fish 3 times a week. No more food addiction. I eat to live. The GLP-1 helped my brain not trick my body into thinking it needs to eat crap.

[Myrddin]

Ozempic and similar products can cause blindness by damaging the blood supply to the optic nerve. It's a real difficult medication for a type 1 diabetic. The delayed gastric emptying cause position a diabetic with a severe glucose low in serious trouble. Orally consumed sugar will just sit in the stomach instead of moving out of the stomach where it can be absorbed. My wife battles this often during the night.

[Blurb2350]

Yes. If employers begin encouraging and subsidizing these meds, they can expect a raft of lawsuits down the line.

[Savage Beast]

Looks like the market would merely adjust. If the demand for GLP-1 is that great, manufacturers might find it profitable to produce more, lower the price, and sell more.

I remember a tabloid headline long ago: "New hope for fatties: plastic food." Well it seems that plastic food didn't work out but GLP-1 fulfilled the hope.

[Savage Beast]

That’s true. Some unfortunate souls cannot lose weight no matter how much discipline and self control they have. Obesity can be intractable just like everything else.

[Savage Beast]

I must admit I have been tempted to lift the potato chips out of a chubby person's grocery basket and wag my finger with a "No no no." So far I've resisted the urge. Maybe if all this GLP-1 works out, neither of us will have to resist our urges.

[Savage Beast]

That's great! It makes my day. Keep up the good work.

Miracles happen every day, many times every day.

Many hopeless disorders I dealt with in medical school and which broke my heart are now curable. I thank God every day and all through every day, for all these miracles--and more to come.

I am so happy for you. For all of us.

[Savage Beast]

"If employers begin encouraging and subsidizing these meds, they can expect a raft of lawsuits down the line."

But if they do it right, the profits will still outweigh the costs.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Yep. People are going to be suffering from lifelong side effects that will probably make them wish they were dead.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Wow! A friend of mine is on this! She was on ozempic but I begged her to go off of it - also sent her lots of info on the side effects and she switched.

[TheConservator]

Ozempic is so 2 years ago. Mounjaro/Zepbound is much more effective.

[maddog55]

Why in the hell would you post a common sense solution?
🤣🤣🤣

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

If it worked for you, great. I think a lot of people refuse to acknowledge that everyone’s body chemistry is different.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Yep. People are going to be suffering from lifelong side effects that will probably make them wish they were dead.

Although those side effects may be significantly less than the adverse health consequences of remaining overweight/obese.