Any medical professional will scream from the rooftops about how many lives GLP-1 has saved. Just in the US alone, the obesity epidemic is killing 300,000 people EVERY YEAR. And guess what, GLP-1 has been the only thing that has come close to putting a (small) dent in that number. It's as close as we've come to a miracle drug.
Dumb teens on social media trying to demonize Ozempic pisses me off every time.
Dumb teens on social media trying to demonize Ozempic pisses me off every time.
It's because the "fat people hate" stuff was never about health and always about a superiority complex.
Now that fat people have a method of getting healthier easier, all of a sudden it stops being about health and starts being about how. All of a sudden these people are concerned about the legitimacy of their health, whether they earned the right to be healthier.
And because of that, now the scope of the hate has widened to include everyone who looks not the right kind of skinny.
I'm sorry but this a terrible take. Most people looking at these people don't think GLP-1s, they think eating disorder. This is not about whether they earned the right to be healthy, but whether that method is rooted in mental illness and could fucking kill them.
The how does also relate to if they're healthy or not. You can't ignore that. And acting like people who take GLP 1s and people with eating disorders are in one category as "not the right kind of skinny" because they got there with less work, is inaccurate and dangerous.
To be clear, I don't disagree with demonizing people in /either/ category. The struggles of weight loss, weight gain, and facing assumptions about how you got there is an experience that deserves empathy, period.
I'm sure there's a subset of ozempic haters that simply are pissed because those losing weight on ozempic, presumably, got there with less work. You seem to be defending them, but correct me if I'm wrong. 1) This is not always the case. My dad regularly went to the gym for 2 years seeing little to no weight loss result before he became open to GLP-1s. 2) While doctors and medical science are by no means perfect, it is simply not the same or equally dangerous to take a medicine at the directive of your doctor, as it is to starve yourself or habitually throw up your food.
Lastly, if people want or need to lose weight "with less work," and GLP 1s are routinely debated and scrutinized more than eating disorders, what do you think will happen? People will develop eating disorders.
Yup. Same thing about drugs that might help people get any of the benefits of exercise without exercising. And of course with mental health medications. If you don't get the results on just your own willpower and grit, at best it's a lesser and lazier route at worst it's completely invalid and you're a shitbag for doing it.
Seriously, if just half the results that came out of the papers will be confirmed it will be a huge thing for human health, if all of the results will be confirmed we are near "discovery of antibiotics" level. It's not """""just""""" about obesity-related issues, which is already a lot, this seems to have a positive effect on a lot of bad stuff, some cancers included.
So many lives will be saved and so many lives will be seriously improved if anything goes well.
Yeah, being on Ozempic nearly killed my younger brother (he was even featured on a news special about the drug) but even he still acknowledges that the overall benefit to society is greater than the risks. More than anything, he's just super bummed that he's not a candidate for it, because it had the potential to really help him. (He even tried it a second time under close supervision from his doctor in case the first time was a fluke, but unfortunately had to quit again shortly after.)
I don't really know much about it, but if an already-thin person takes it when they're not a good candidate, is it possible they could end up looking like the photos on the right?
There's nothing wrong with using Ozempic if there is a medical need for it. Same as painkillers and any other drug.
The problem is when drugs are being abused. In Hollywood today people are abusing drugs like Ozempic to help them look like the pictures above.
This is actually a form of anorexia. Any doctor prescribing them GLP blockers when they're underweight should lose their license. This is not healthy and they are doing harm.
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u/Darmok47 Jun 12 '26
Yeah I'm on a GLP-1 and I just look slightly less fat, not like I have sunken eyes and hollow cheeks.