Unexpected Ozempic Baby Pregnancies? How Birth Control Might Be Affected by GLP-1 Drugs

With all of the obsession on GLP1, weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Mogovi. Have you heard the term Ozempic baby or Ozempic babies? This is the phenomenon where women are finding that their birth control isn't working as well as it used to or not at all. Where the woman is taking an oral contraceptive, but she's also taking these injectable weight loss drugs and finds that she ends up getting pregnant. Why does this happen? A lot of people speculate that it's because there is some profound shift in her hormones that is enabling or overcoming the oral contraceptive. The truth is actually probably much simpler. The likely mechanism for this is that when these injectable weight loss drugs are involved, it slows the intestines down so much that it actually changes the ability of the intestines to absorb this medication, this oral contraceptive. And thus it's not working. Again, not because of some grand whole hormone disruption, just simply through the fact that it's not getting digested and absorbed very well. Now, I happen to be someone who thinks having babies is wonderful. I wish I had more. But even still, it's something to be mindful of that these injectable weight loss drugs change the function of the intestines so much that it may even change the body's response to something like an oral contraceptive.