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> No, Wegovy and Zepbound are not diabetes drugs. They are weight loss drugs.

Moreover… who cares? Viagra was a failed angina treatment. Valium was originally a dye

So?

Exactly! For many drugs it's essentially a funny accident of history that they were originally discovered while attempting to cure something completely unrelated to what is now their primary usage.

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