Is Ozempic the answer to obesity? | If You’re Listening
Semaglutide was created as a drug to treat diabetes, but its side effect of weight loss brought it more attention.
Now TikTok is awash with users and celebrities like Elon Musk and Amy Schumer have confirmed the drugs are part of their weight loss regimes, sending the value of the drug and its proprietor Novo Nordisk to stratospheric heights.
Is semaglutide the light at the end of the tunnel after a century of dangerous and expensive weight loss experimentation?
Matt Bevan takes a look in this episode of: If You’re Listening.
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