US President Donald Trump has offered his own thoughts on Ozempic and other popular weight loss drugs that have taken over the world in recent years, as he recounts the shocking words that he told a friend who was taking the 'fat pill'.
There's a good chance that you know of either a celebrity or someone in your life having taken the weight loss drugs under the GLP-1 inhibitor umbrella over the past couple of years, as they have become an incredibly popular way to shed the pounds quickly.
They work by slowing your digestion and tricking your mind into thinking that you're full, and many have sworn by the results that they've achieved when taking the drugs.
Its most popular forms fall under names you might recognize like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, and while there are a number of alarming side effects and worrying long term uncertainty, it continues to rise in popularity.
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It has even caught the attention of Donald Trump, although he doesn't exactly seem like he's all that impressed with the results that he's witnessed so far.
As reported by the Independent, President Trump was speaking at the White House amid claims that pain medication Tylenol is linked to autism, and he decided to comment on some of his friends who have taken drugs like Ozempic, which he has also dubbed the 'fat pill'.
"Sometimes it works on people, the ones I've seen it hasn't worked so well," the president explained. "They say to me, 'I've lost some weight', I say 'you don't look it to me'."
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Key regulators in the Trump administration have recently issued major warnings to the world's biggest weight loss drug manufacturers over their allegedly misleading marketing, and perhaps the president could be hammering home the point even further here.
It's also not clear quite who Trump is making reference to when he's discussing the lack of change following the administration of Ozempic, although we do know that Elon Musk has previously taken Mounjaro alongside advocating for widespread GLP-1 usage, and they did recently have a catch up at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
This isn't the only medication that Trump's 'Make America Healthy Again' plan with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has attempted to take down, as alongside the aforementioned claims about Tylenol that the medical world has strongly opposed, the pair have also offered 'disturbing' solutions to measles outbreaks and even shut down critical research into mRNA cancer vaccines.