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People who stop Ozempic regain weight four times faster than those who lost through diet alone, with two-thirds of lost pounds returning within a year. The drug is not the problem. The missing exit strategy is. Here is what the data actually says, and what to do about it.
By Kai Brighton · 4 min read
GLP-1 users are developing scurvy and the media is running pirate jokes. The actual issue is that 129 randomized trials of these drugs never systematically tracked what patients were eating, and millions are now taking powerful appetite suppressants with zero structured nutritional monitoring. The fix is straightforward; nobody is doing it.
By Dr. Alex Chen · 4 min read
Over 41 million Americans have no commercial insurance coverage for Wegovy, even as obesity costs the US healthcare system $173 billion annually. Insurers will pay for the heart attack but deny the drug shown to reduce cardiovascular events by 20%. This is not a cost-control strategy; it is a deferral of a bill that keeps compounding.
By Kai Brighton · 5 min read