A doctor argues 95% of people start GLP-1 medications like Ozempic at doses that are too high, causing dependence and unhealthy appearance. He points to celebrities like Demi Moore as examples and recommends a gradual "start low and go slow" approach instead of the aggressive dosing most prescribers use.
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I'm no expert on Ozempic at all, but I mean, I've just seen like celebrities that are on it and they look like death, like their face is drawn out and their eyes are hollow and their bone, you know, look, I was in Cannes and Demi Moore was in the same hotel that I was in and I saw her in the restaurant before that picture went mainstream and I'm like, oh God, the problem and why you see all that is because 95% of people who start GLPs do them incorrectly. And let me define what that means. They get prescribing directions or instructions from their doctor. I shouldn't say doctor, from the prescriber who gets theirs from the pharmaceutical company. Now, Hal, you and I both know that the pharmaceutical companies are not about making people healthier. No, they're about making money. Yep. And lining their pockets and driving profits and revenue and blah, blah, blah. So at the end of the day, the pharmaceutical companies are amazing in that they create these amazing innovations where they're terrible. These people are working with doctors. Doctors who give them way too much, who get them literally physiologically addicted to them because their receptors blow out at these super high dosages. And so what happens is they have to give them more, more, more, right? So in my world, where I advocate and I educate on people how to use these, the mantra is start low and go slow.
