alt Hacker NewsPrecisely, the point of Ozempic (or rather Wegovy, Ozempic is for type-1 diabetes) is that it reduces your appetite, making it easier to eat less.
One of the studies done with Wegovy showed that people lost 15% of their body mass in a year, but they also eat 500 Calories less and exercised for 2.5 hours a week.
>...Ozempic is for type-1 diabetes
At the present time, Ozempic is not approved for Type 1 diabetes:
>...Ozempic® is not for use in people with type 1 diabetes.
https://www.ozempic.com
Compared with Type 2, with Type 1 diabetes there are other risks that could occur:
>...While medications such as GLP-1 receptor agonists (Ozempic, Wegovy) and SGLT-2 inhibitors (Jardiance, Farxiga) demonstrated powerful benefits, they quickly were determined to pose too much of a liability for pharmaceutical companies or regulators due to concerns about safety. Specifically, GLP-1s can increase the risk of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and SGLT-2s can raise the risk of a serious, life-threatening complication called diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).
https://diatribe.org/diabetes-medications/why-diabetes-mirac...