OpEd: 'Our obsessive cycle of dieting and being skinny...is also a part of dangerous messaging to youth that implies they should stop at nothing, including injecting diabetes medicine, to achieve what our society lauds as the perfect body.'
The drug suppresses the appetite by slowing the rate at which your stomach empties, according to, and by impacting the hunger centers in the brain to reduce overall appetite.
that for some patients, once they stop taking a drug like Ozempic, their appetite might feel bigger than it was before they lost weight. Experts do not recommend it for cosmetic weight loss. “While this has received significant attention in the media, Ozempic and related GLP-1 medications are not designed to be used [for short-term, cosmetic weight loss], can lead to potential adverse events, and ultimately the weight that is lost will be regained,” Christopher McGowan, MD, a gastroenterologist specializing in obesity medicine and endo bariatrics, told. “Further, this off-label use of Ozempic is greatly impacting the availability of the medication for those who need it most.
Dr. Lydecker said weight-loss trends fueled by a desire to look a certain way only exacerbate the already confusing messaging around bodies and can lead to more harm in the journey to health and wellness. “The trend scares me because it’s marketing this sort of idealistic lifestyle and we don’t want that to be the goal,” she said. “When weight loss occurs for appearance, for power, for popularity, for happiness, that’s when we start to see some of those diet-culture trends and disordered eating.
Perhaps more concerning is how closely the obsession with Ozempic for cosmetic weight loss echoes the rise of Fen-Phen — a harmful diet pill that was widely prescribed and called a “miracle” drug in the '90s. With a
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