You may have seen this week that Oprah was back on primetime television.
She hosted a special on Monday called “Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution.” Really, it was more of an infomercial for drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, which millions of Americans are taking to lose weight.
Previously, I’ve gone into the various side-effects of these drugs. Ozempic, for example, can potentially cause thyroid tumors, cancer, and projectile vomiting. Maybe even more alarming is that we also don’t really understand how these drugs work. Ozempic essentially tricks the pancreas into releasing more insulin. In turn, Ozempic’s artificially created hormones, “appear to actually bind to receptors on neurons in several parts of the brain,” according to a biologists quoted last year by The Atlantic. What do these hormones do when they bind to receptors in the brain? Apparently, they…
