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I don't think you realize the amount of people have taken Ozempic or similar drug. I'm lucky enough that I haven't had issues with body weight, but if I believe the stats (and my observations in real world confirm it), about 15% of adults are on it.

If it was "killing people", we would be seeing it literally everywhere. We're not talking about a small scale 50K+ observation... we're talking about literal millions.

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This says 6% are currently on a GLP-1 drug and 15% have ever taken one in their life:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/10/health/ozempic-glp-1-surv...

Fair, I remembered my stats wrong. But it's still 15M people in US that are actively on it. That's a lot of people.

Really just meant it kills you if you plan on using it as a lifelong solution. I don't have an obesity problem but if I did, this is one of those drugs I'd journal about daily to keep track of how it's affecting me.

Where is any source about it, other than “it just feels wrong, people shouldn’t cheat their way out of obesity”? Sorry for being obtuse, but I have very close friends for whom it changed their lives.

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