[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.

[9YearLurker]

I wouldn’t want to take on that liability.

[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.

[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.

[TheConservator]

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

[TalBlack]

Ozempic in use by people compromised by diabetes or overweight is one thing but a not well known drug that gets extremely popular for positive weight reduction (in a nation of fatties) as well as quite a few other things is going to start racking up victims even if it is relatively safe. And you can bet in the age of clicks it’s going to get reported endlessly. I heard Ozempic called a wonder drug by a very enthusiastic MD. We’ve all heard that before.

[Biblebelter]

Someone stops smoking in their late forties.

Good for them.

Then they gain 35 pounds which is not good but they are not exactly morbidly obese.

So then they take Ozempic.

What are the long term effects?

Who knows?

Time will tell, just as time has started to tell what the long term effects of the clot shot are.

But they may have been better off not giving up smoking.