Woman taking Ozempic says she’s cut her grocery bill by $100/month since she no longer has an appetite for snacks and junk food. Of course, the Ozempic prescription costs $1,000/month.
Health care economist says that the positive health care effects of weight loss drugs cutting the costs of diabetes treatments, heart disease, etc. are worth about $500/month per prescribed patient to the economy.
intercst
There are many companies trying to produce a pill form, $VKTX is one of them. I wonder if this will become something like a statin?
Andy
GLP-1 drugs are big molecules that won’t survive being dissolved in your stomach acid. That’s why they need to be administered by injection.
But the first company that comes up with an alternative drug in pill form will make a bundle. People don’t like shots.
GLP-1 has shown promise for anxiety, alcohol abuse, fentanyl addiction, etc. It’s also thought to make people look taller and more handsome.
There likely isn’t a patient on Planet Earth who wouldn’t benefit from a prescription. {{ LOL }}
intercst
There’s been some progress in transdermal delivery systems (patches) in mice. That would certainly be easier than injections.
DB2
They’re GAY !!! So guess who refuses it and demands all such systems be classified as illegal because they are NOT “religiously proper”.
OMG – gay mice? Is it nature or nurture?
DB2
So, both she and her wallet are thinning down.
I just thought of a potential side-effect that hasn’t been discussed yet! I wonder if a study might not show that in a household where the primary caregiver (and primary shopper) begins taking one of these drugs, if the rest of the members of the household also see improved health and/or lower weight. Because if the primary shopper isn’t picking up junk food and bringing it home, there will be less junk food in the house, and the members of the household will tend to eat less junk food.
Taller??? Wait a second, do I need to go see a doctor about this drug?? 
I don’t think that is the way it works.
Andy
You know
You know
My diet on Noom this go around was only a ten pound loss.
But I realized there is stress involved in following a diet.
Who’da thunk it?
So what? I can handle plenty of stress and diet.
It turns out there is not that much stress.
Who’da thunk it 2.
adding the madness of crowds pretends there is a stress-free path in life. When the drug side effects shut down your stomach god bless ya.