In the past year, Ozempic has become increasingly popular with celebrities, tech moguls and TikTok influencers as a quick and effortless way to lose weight. It has prompted shortages of the drug worldwide.
Australians who rely on it have been told they may have to go without until at least March.The rush on semaglutide and its popularity on TikTok has coincided with whatWith Y2K-inspired low-rise jeans back in fashion and the hashtag #SkinnyLegend doing the rounds on TikTok, health experts feared a surge in toxic diet culture was imminent.
"Don't take the 'skinny pen' — or whatever other normalising names they have given — for a new starvation method," she said. When blood sugar levels start to rise after eating, the drug stimulates the body to produce more insulin, helping to reduce blood sugar levels. "Those medications help people lose somewhere around 5 to 10 per cent of their weight. [But] people didn't pay as much attention to these medications until Wegovy came around."This, in turn, worked "like a domino effect", sparking shortages worldwide and forcing patients to move on to other drugs such as Trulicity, said chair of the diabetes network at the The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Gary Deed.
Under the hashtag, users share before and after videos of themselves or detail their weight-loss journey."I worry that, with the TikTok videos and things like that, it's broadcasting and advertising to populations who are not in need of this medication, and perhaps using it for the wrong intentions," Dr Velazquez said.
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