Weight Loss Drugs: Shortcut To Fountain of Thinness?
Remember when weight loss drugs started making waves a few years ago? As I’ve stated many times in my writings, you won’t medicate your way out of an unhealthy lifestyle without serious repercussions. It’s a pipe dream that’s pushed onto unhealthy people by Big Pharma. Any medicine you stay on for life is big business for these companies, especially with the prevalence of diabetes continuing to increase in the U.S. in all subgroups and at all levels. As many as half of all adult Americans now have diabetes or pre-diabetes.
The American Medical Association also classified obesity as a chronic disease. The U.S. obesity rate currently sits at 41.9% percent, while Canada languishes at 26.6%. Recent studies show that the growing number of obese adults are on a collision course with disease when it comes to their poor health.
Yet NBCNews.com quotes Dr. Ania Jastreboff, an associate professor at the Yale School of Medicine as saying: "Two-thirds of Americans did not wake up one morning and choose to be overweight or to have obesity. This is not a behavioral choice or behavioral disease. This is a chronic disease — a chronic, treatable disease — and we should treat it like we treat any other disease, with medications and with interventions that target disease mechanisms."
Translation: Big Pharma wants to capture increasingly overweight, unhealthy customers with a medicinal fix. They don’t want you messing around with diets or all that messy exercise stuff. Their weight loss drugs are proven to work and it’s going to make them gazillions because it’s an easy fix. You can even stay on your high-fat, high-calorie, high-carb, sugary processed food diet; all you have to do is pop a pill or take a shot. What are the odds of people thinking about the consequences?
The implications of a Medical “Cure”
Pharmaceutical companies don’t get rich off common sense. They’re going to peddle the magic of weight loss medicine, swaddled in flowery and ambiguous language that that takes your mind off the most serious issue: Many medicines cause severe health problems. Weight loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy (brand names for semaglutide, a medication that can lower blood sugar levels) with “weight loss” as side effect, are no exception.
NBCNews says prescriptions for Ozempic tripled from 2021 to 2022, according to data from the prescription drug discount company SingleCare. Last year, high demand and global supply constraints gave rise to shortages of the medications. The FDA reported a Wegovy shortage in March 2022, followed by an Ozempic shortage in August.
In other words, people are not listening to common sense and the results are predictable.
The bad news is the side effects. Though not common across the board, they can include unbearable vomiting, fatigue, headaches and stomach cramps.
Obesity medicine experts gloss over such symptoms and tell us that these drugs can transform patients' lives and health. Short term weight loss will enable them to do activities they couldn't do previously, as well as address health issues linked to obesity and diabetes. But the hype is never true.
The other half of the equation is that Ozempic and other “magic” weight loss drugs show rapid weight gain the moment you stop taking the injections. No problem, many will say, I’ll just keep taking them. No, because the health risks will eventually stop you in your tracks:
And according to Doc Anarchy on Substack:
That makes sense because these drugs prevent overeating. Patients also will not likely change food quality or partake in exercise, meaning nutrient losses will be higher and bones will be impacted even more.
Other side effects based on the prescribing information for Ozempic (semaglutide) and Wegovy (semaglutide) available on Drugs.com include:
nausea
diarrhea
headache
constipation
dizziness
joint pain
low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
urinary tract infections
vomiting
itching
rash
increased heart rate.
Long-term use of both Ozempic and Wegovy may also increase the risk of possible:
heart attack or stroke
pancreatitis
gallbladder disease
kidney damage
allergic reactions
thyroid tumors
suicidal behavior
Down the road when the terrible implications come to light, a patient will have to come off them. The person in the mirror now staring back may be more skinny, but also weaker and increasingly unhealthy. Rebound weight gain is also essentially guaranteed, as the makers of Wegovy and Ozempic admit. That means you’re going gain back not only the weight you lost, but more; much more. You’ve destroyed your metabolism, your bone structure and musculature all based on a lie from people that profited from your vanity. You end up in a worse place than when you started.
Change your diet and exercise and side effects are unlikely to happen, but more importantly, you’ll probably also change your character to one of more fortitude, common sense and have an improved long-term outlook on your health.