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by tyre 780 days ago
Semaglutide has been on the market since 2017 and clinical trials commenced in 2008. So we have a fair amount of data on longer-term users. It wasn't being used for general obesity until recently.
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But has it had long-term studies as a weight-loss drug instead of a diabetes treatment? The results might be different.
it might be, but the question is if there's some long term bad effect, like it causes brain bleeds if you take it for 20 years or something. I don't think patients taking it for weight-loss instead of diabetes changes the underlying biological processes that happens as a result of taking the medication, so long term studies based on diabetes patients is useful information for non-diabetes patients.
My doctor has been prescribing it for obesity for about five years.
Doesn’t work for everyone. I have relatives on it. Still big. The best improvement they made was giving up alcohol.
Giving up alcohol is huge though
Yeah, I just meant that they've done both, Ozempic and Alcohol, it was a noticable change after giving up the alcohol, awesome weight loss, the Ozempic hasn't changed a lot.
the belief is that the ozempic is what's allows the giving up of alcohol