For People with Eating Disorders, the Buzz About Ozempic Is a Nightmare
“We are talking about explosive diarrhea, and people are saying, ‘Sign me up,’” Setnick says, referring toThat’s in part because many articles don’t focus on the risks of using prescription drugs for unintended purposes, Saunders says. While there are patients for whom drugs including Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are medically appropriate and helpful, much of the buzz around them focuses on people who are using them cosmetically—a population that has not been well-studied.
Marlene Katz, a casting director in Los Angeles who has struggled with disordered eating in the past, says articles should mention those risks, as well as how medications may fuel disordered eating if used inappropriately. Articles will “talk about how easy it is to eat one meal a day,” she says. “That’s starvation. That’s an eating disorder.”
“It’s hard, as someone who’s had eating disorders in the past, to read these articles about thin women using it to get thinner…and not feel like I need to be thinking about getting thinner again,” Benoit says. “Even though I genuinely have no desire to use this or any other weight-loss drug, I do have, in the back of my mind, the flame of an eating disorder that will always be on that says, ‘That would be great.
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