The first epidemiological study of semaglutide (Ozempic / Wegovy) side effects has been published, and the results are not good. 👇
Researchers examined health-insurance claims for 16 million US patients and looked specifically at individuals prescribed semaglutide or liraglutide (a drug that works in the same way as semaglutide) between 2006 and 2020.
The evidence showed that, compared to another weight loos drug (bupropio-naltrexone), users of semaglutide and liraglutide had 9.09x higher risk of pancreatitis; 4.22 times the risk of bowel obstruction; and 3.67x the risk of gastroparesis, which is stomach paralysis.
The researchers calculate that hundreds of thousands of people will be affected by these conditions.
The manufacturers of semaglutide and liraglutide are already being hit with massive lawsuits from people who've suffered stomach paralysis as a result of using the drugs.
There's good reason to believe that Lisa-Marie Presley may have died as a result of using Ozempic or a similar drug. She died of a catastrophic bowel obstruction. She had had bariatric surgery, which can cause obstruction issues. Ozempic makes these even worse.
One thing the new study doesn't talk about is pulmonary aspiration. Patients on semaglutide are much more likely to inhale the contents of their own stomach during surgery, because the stomach can take weeks to empty properly. I've written about this for America Mind.
It's also unclear whether the risk of thyroid cancers identified in the rodent studies for GLP-1 agonists like semaglutide will materialise.
Here's a link to the new study:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Here's my piece on Ozempic for the American Mind:
americanmind.org/salvo/fattys-l…
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