Dr. Ron Najafi and Rob discuss when GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic make sense for weight loss. Najafi argues doctors, not patients or social media, should decide who gets them, weighing heart disease risk and other factors carefully.
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What you're saying, Rob, is that if you are at high risk and you are extremely obese, and you are at high risk of heart disease, various things, this might be a good thing. But if you're a healthy person, like I know 25 year old who are really not fat, you know, but they want to go on Ozempic, they want to take Ozempic because they want to lose a few pounds, make themselves look better. I mean, that's a risk that they shouldn't be taking. Even the 2% side effect of the gastroparesis.
That you mentioned, I personally think that this has to be a physician driven determination with, of course, feedback from the patient. But, you know, just basically letting Hollywood run rampant with, you know, a drug with virtually no regulation is, I think, recipe for disaster.