Drugs like Ozempic are revolutionizing the treatment of obesity. The medications, originally used to treat diabetes, keep gaining attention as celebrities and other influencers describe taking them to lose weight quickly.
Dani Blum, a reporter for The Times, tells the story behind the drugs and describes some of the ramifications of using them.
Guest: Dani Blum (https://www.nytimes.com/by/dani-blum), a reporter for Well at The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Ozempic can cause major weight loss. What happens if you stop taking it? (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/well/live/ozempic-wegovy-weight-loss.html?searchResultPosition=6)
• Some people taking the drugs can experience such intense lack of appetite that they become malnourished (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/well/eat/ozempic-side-effects-malnutrition.html).
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I am really alarmed but not surprised that this drug is being wisely marketed without any knowledge of long term consequences, isn’t this the same as AI and ChatGPT? Or the climate crisis? We’ll learn about the consequences when we get there. 😅😮😢
I used weight loss medication for a month and lost like a pound, and stopped. I went to see a dietitian after that which worked better for me. I find that if I eat better I’m not hungry throughout the day.
Doctors are not dietitians, and they need to get that in their heads at some point.
I live in Mexico where there is the same data on obesity and overweight as the US, plus diabetes is endemic.
The women I know who were put on Ozempic for pre-diabetes as a test group, found the degree of nausea was what kept them from eating. And then those without national health coverage couldn't afford the drug, anyway. So back to square one.
Do we know the side effects of these drugs taken long term?
Thank you for this excellent podcast.
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The nausea can be managed with Zofran (ondasatron), the mouth dissolvable form. It’s a very small pill (1/8”) and dissolves quickly under or on the tongue and stops the sensation of nausea within 20 or fewer minutes. It works best if it’s taken as soon as nausea begins.
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The next fen-phen.
I want and I want it now. Its benefits outweigh the possible side effects. It is the patient's right to be healthy if they want to be. Period.
I appreciate NYT presenting the two contrasting experiences of people who took the medicine, but for the less nuanced listener the piece makes it seem like the experience is 50-50(good-bad) and I doubt that stats of the entire population taking this drug is 50-50. It's probably more like 70-30 or 80-20 in favor of positive experiences taking Ozempic. It would be good to call out these numbers so people weigh these experiences based on statistics.
Hope NYT brings up stomach issues, long term. You'll never eat the same way. No steaks or home cooking meals.
No offense but the girl's voice is very annoying. She tends to drag the ending vowels on for too long in her pronunciation… In real life this is fine but on radio especially with headphones on this exacerbates to a point where it was intolerable for me…
There is no free lunch in life, we have yet to figure out the true consequences of this drug. I fear they will be much worse than anyone imagines phen phen, dexatrim…. keep believing the drug companies they have such a good record with these things.
Do we have proof that people are actually losing excess body fat? I hear they're losing weight is it body fat or is it other parts of the body that are being depleted muscle mass? Bone density?