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by heavyset_go 184 days ago
GLP-1 drugs are such money makers that it's worth advertising them so that you 1) know they exist 2) might recommend them 3) might take them yourself at some point.

A month's supply of Wegovy/etc costs nearly $2k.

Same thing with the monoclonal antibody drugs, you can be looking at tens of thousands of dollars per month for a single patient.

You also see this with luxury brands, that advertise to segments that cannot afford their products, in order to build image of luxury and prestige.

That said, I asked my friends/family if they had <not embarrassing or too intrusive> condition, and more often than not, someone in the household had it.