The blockbuster weight loss drug sold as Ozempic and Wegovy [has, on 21 March, gone] generic in countries that are home to 40 percent of the world’s population, significantly lowering the price of a costly medicine that had been largely unaffordable to nearly all but the wealthiest people. On Saturday, Novo Nordisk, the company that until now has had a monopoly on selling the drug, will lose patent protection in several of the world’s most populous countries. The first generic versions are expected to arrive in India as soon as this weekend. In the coming months, the generics are also expected to become available in China, Canada, Brazil, Turkey and South Africa.
Never believe it’s not so
i heard studies showed the weight lost from these drugs were all regained within two years after stopping the drug.
i suppose if one expects to pass away before those two years are up, they can “enjoy” being remembered as their slimmer self, posthumously…
This drug isn’t the solution: it’s a band-aid to give people more time to develop better habits.
Many people will not - sometimes they believe they can merely get back on the drug when their lifestyle starts killing themselves again.
The drug will drop the weight, though. But, like dialysis, it’s not a permanent treatment, nor is it a fix.
imo the fact the drug works as well as it does is more evidence that the problem is better conceptualized as physiological than psychological. If someone’s body insists to them, wrongly and chemically, that they are starving, that’s the real problem because making decisions with chemicals is what our brains do, and we evolved to have less direct agency over the things that most directly impact our survival.
the weight lost from these drugs were all regained within two years after stopping the drug.
So you have to buy and take the drug FOREVER!!! Why do you think they went to the trouble to develop and release it?
I believe they work by lowering your appetite, generally leading to less eating, especially snacking.
Even liposuction, literally taking the fat out of the body, doesn’t result in permanent weight loss.
What do you expect a drug to do to make you skinny without it needing to become something you take regularly? If you want to lose weight permanently, you have to work for it, no matter which strategy you use.
You sound bitter.
All diets and exercise are temporary if you abandon them.
I think you need to make permanent changes to lifestyle and eating to keep weight off. If you return to your old ways then the weight comes straight back on. Just like a crash diet.
isn’t it meant to be a permanent treatment?
no one says insulin is inefficient because diabetics die if they stop taking it.
Exactly. And these drugs were originally diabetes medications. And they don’t cure diabetes.
Not directly.
But borderline people who lose a lot of weight can sometimes get into the range of non-insulin-dependent life.
that’s type 2 and I’m early stages.
i hope that my example made it clear I didn’t mean those cases.
yet we could just improve our culture and our food supply but I guess a pill will do. Good luck with them hershey squirts you filthy animals.
Oh, great, thanks for that advice. My mental and physical preconditions just stopped influencing my eating and workout habits and fixed my metabolism, nice!
have you seen American food culture? not sure it can be fixed in any reasonable time
Pretty cool for folks with type 2 diabetes, but that’s if they can still get any sort of supply.
“just improve our culture and our food supply”
…as if it was that easy 😅 Especially with the interwoven net of geographical factors, industrial lobbying and tradition/consumer taste.
While I agree that in best case, everyone could control themselves. But I think you misunderstand what the drug does.
It makes you not wanting to eat as much. The pill doesnt make fat magically go away.
Which effectivly would fix the food supply issue.
But I do agree that there’s a cultural problem, especially in the US.
From the reports that i have read (am indian), 20+ generics are expected, within roughly 2 months or so, with previous price being something along 10k INR (roughly 100USD) a month to about 3-4k INR (30-40 USD) a month. Drugs have always been kinda cheap here (as an example, a simple paracetamol (tylenol) tablet costs 1 INR (~1cent US)), so it is still expensive (for vast majority, it is more than 2-3 days of work), but much better. hope people use this cautiously though with reasonable expectations.
Sounds to me like the US is going to continue to be a country of morbidly obese poor people in a much skinnier world.
Ok so how can I get generic ozempic from India, because here in the US there probably won’t be a generic until at least 2032 due to how our patent laws work.
You could get it from Canada, its a bit closer.
I’ve purchased generic medications on DNMs before. There was a user “Indiapilldaddy” who sold hundreds of different generics. Antibiotics, antivirals, cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. With the review system on the DNMs it’s probably more trustworthy than some random website that pops up.
DNMs
It’s fun to dereference jargon the First time you use it.
What are “DNMs”?
i am guessing ask someone to bring it over (maybe courier also works).
Yes, my understanding is that it’s legal in the US to purchase prescription-only drugs from overseas as long as they’re only for personal use. It’s kind of a grey area but as long as they’re not scheduled substances, I and multiple people I know have saved a lot of money by buying prescription drugs from Europe and shipping them here (we have such a wonderfully broken system here, don’t we?)
If you go to border towns in Mexico like Tijuana they have pharmacies on every corner like Starbucks where you can buy medications.
