Is there anything Ozempic can’t do?

Semaglutide, the main ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, could soon be used for a lot more than weight loss.

 What Does All the Chatter About Ozempic Mean for Body Positivity?

I understand the attraction to Ozempic, a prescription medication used for the management of Type 2 diabetes that’s gone mainstream. The weekly injection offers the seemingly impossible: making and keeping you thin. You don’t have to be careful or eat clean or even mindfully—you just jab and go. It’s not unlike other drugs that have started out medicinal before turning recreational. (A reminder here to club kids that some horses do actually need tranquilizing.)

Ozempic Is About to Be Old News

As weight-loss medications go, Ozempic is far from perfect. Though the drug has profound impacts, it requires weekly injections, a tolerance for uncomfortable side effects, and the stamina—not to mention the budget—for long-term treatment. (Ozempic has somehow become a catchall term for semaglutide but technically that product has gotten FDA sign-off only as a diabetes medication. A larger dose of semaglutide, marketed as Wegovy, has been approved for weight loss.)

Ozempic Settles the Obesity Debate: It’s Biology Over Willpower

Weight-loss drugs affect the brain in ways that help researchers understand how the body regulates weight.

The Mystique of Ozempic Is Growing

Obesity drugs keep getting linked to health benefits beyond weight loss. It’s maddeningly difficult to figure out what’s causing them.

GNC is struggling. It hopes Ozempic can give it a boost

The full impact of GLP-1s – or glucagon-like peptide 1 agonists – on peoples’ health remains unclear, but some people have reported side effects such as muscle loss and gastrointestinal problems. GNC is positioning its brand as a retailer that can support people managing these issues. Gyms, food manufacturers and retailers are adjusting their strategies to respond to the rise of GLP-1s.

Here Are Some Ozempic Side Effects More Concerning Than “Ozempic Face”

Every drug comes with potential side effects. People taking Ozempic are discovering the issues that come with the weight loss medication that’s so trendy there's a shortage.

How Ozempic Warps Our Relationship With Food and Pleasure

Weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are just the latest in a depressing line of obesity ‘cures’.

How to Make Ozempic More Affordable

If we think of drugs like Netflix subscriptions, it’s possible!

I try to be a body-positive doctor. It's getting harder in the age of Ozempic

Right around the time Ozempic came out, I started to change the way I practice medicine. As the new class of weight-loss drug ushered in a highly medicalized era of Americans' obsession with being thin, I decided I was done with trying to get my patients to lose weight.

Is Berberine Really 'Nature's Ozempic'?

An obesity medicine specialist shares his insights on the new social media craze.

I’m on Ozempic. Please Stop Making Me Feel Bad

I take semaglutide for my pre-diabetes, which is nearly impossible to treat without medical intervention. And I wish Ozempic critics—the most outspoken of whom happen to be naturally thin celebrities who have never had it or been obese—would understand.

Obesity in the age of Ozempic

Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are changing how patients view their own weight struggles. Will society follow?

Ozempic babies: a surprise side effect of weight loss drugs

Murmurs of unexpected pregnancies while taking semaglutide-based drugs are growing on social media.

Ozempic For Weight Loss: Is It Safe? What Experts Say

While taking semaglutide may help you lose weight while you are on the drug, most people will regain much of that weight if they discontinue using it. “Studies show that stopping Ozempic completely will likely lead to regaining most of the weight lost within several months,” notes Rekha Kumar, M.D., head of Medical Affairs at evidence-based weight care program Found, and practicing endocrinologist at an academic medical center in New York City.

Ozempic is a serious drug with serious risks. Here’s what to know

The diabetes medication semaglutide has recently become a trendy weight loss treatment. But like every drug, there are downsides—and potentially serious side effects.

Ozempic: How the Diabetes Drug Works and Why It’s Such a Big Deal for Weight Loss

Ozempic is in a category of medications that work by mimicking the effects of a naturally occurring gut hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1. Receptors to GLP-1 are found in the pancreas, the brain and elsewhere in the body. The drug enhances these receptors, which help the pancreas make more insulin, in turn helping to reduce blood-sugar levels that can become elevated in people with diabetes.

The Real Cost of Ozempic

I inject myself once a week. It’s changing my body—but not how I see myself.

The Truth About Ozempic, the ‘Secret’ Celebrity Weight Loss Drug

Diabetic patients who need the medication are now facing shortages after unfounded claims that celebrities are using it to lose weight.

This Diabetes Drug Is Being Prescribed Off-Label for Weight Loss. Now There’s a Shortage

Could Hollywood's latest obsession with thinness be to blame?

Those Weight Loss Drugs May Do a Number on Your Face

People using drugs like Ozempic are discovering an unwanted side effect: facial aging.

What Happens When You Stop Taking Ozempic?

Many people become heavier after halting the use of semaglutide to manage weight.

What Is Ozempic? A Definitive Guide

Mainstream media has framed Ozempic as part of a "diet fad." But in reality, GLP-1 injections help people with diabetes, prediabetes, PCOS, reducing insulin resistance, and other related conditions. Ahead, doctors break down how these work, what they treat, side effects, and more.

What Ozempic Reveals About Desire

Discovering how the new weight loss medications alter appetite and the compulsive behavior that can be associated with it could offer new insight into the nature of pleasure and addictions.