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>>neom+(OP)
Other medications become lifelong medications but without this level of scrutiny. I am 100% in favor of finding a more permanent treatment, but switching blood pressure meds, and cholesterol meds, and other daily meds for a single once a week med is a massive improvement, especially since the all source mortality data keeps rolling in showing the efficacy here is orders of magnitude better than all the other medications out there. A constant issue here is that we keep calling this a 'weight loss drug' and society views being fat as a moral failing ant that you 'just don't have the will power' to overcome. We need to stop. If this is a lifelong drug it is worth it compared to the relatively ineffective, and just as lifelong, alternatives out there.

>>jmward+95
I don’t think that’s a fair assessment. I’m all for life-long drugs that help with weight loss, I don’t view it as a moral failing. That said, it is easy to see why so many people are concerned about these drugs: people taking them can look terrible (“ozempic face”). Gaunt, sick, hollowed out, look at people like Sharon Osbourne, that’s the public face of these drugs. And so when people are committing to life-long use of these drugs, it is being viewed with the very visible side effects in mind, and that is concerning to a lot of people after these drugs seemingly appeared overnight.

>>3roden+X6
"Ozempic face" is actually just "unhealthy rapid weight loss face". Ozempic makes it easier to starve yourself, but that isn't how it's supposed to be used.

>>hamand+Y7
Taking Ozempic also drops a lot of muscular mass and that ozempic face look totally makes sense.

There's no free lunch or wonder drug. While it's effective at weight loss it has a lot of unwanted side effects. And when stopping the drug the weight gain comes back so not sure if it's worth it.

>>tartor+Wb
> Taking Ozempic also drops a lot of muscular mass and that ozempic face look totally makes sense.

No, it doesn't, weight loss does this. I've lost weight before via starving and even as a man, all my muscle went poof. If you look at someone like Ariana Grande, who clearly is anorexic, here arms are like sticks and here face looks tautly stretched over her bones.

This is just what happens when you starve your body of nutrients. Your muscles are some of the first to go because they're the least vital. Your organs and brain are much, much more important. Your body will have no issue taking your muscle away to give it to your organs. Regardless of ozempic.