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With 86,700 tagged videos on TikTok, and celebrity fans including Oprah and Elon Musk, the world is fascinated with so-called weight loss drugs.
Ozempic, one of the most well-known, is actually a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, improving blood sugar to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular incidents. The Ozempic guidelines outline that the drug which is injected – ‘may help you to lose some weight’ but specifies that it is ‘not for weight loss.’
While Ozempic is used to treat type 2 diabetes, Wegovy – another form of the ingredient semaglutide, under a different name – is used to treat ‘adults with obesity or excess weight who also have weight-related medical problems’, its website reads….Read more…
By: Eleanor Noyce
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