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the research is just not there...so caveat emptor.

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this is money making dangerous tripe. Ozempic et al.

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Yes

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Thank you, Dr. Alexander. I am sooo happy a doctor came out with this news. I am slightly overweight, and the best way to help weight loss is to do it through lifestyle changes. Before my car accident, I was a personal trainer for 15 years. The only success I had, was the natural way. There are no short cuts. I miss that, it was

a very rewarding feeling to help someone lose 250lbs, and they are still very grateful. That’s what life is about. Lifting each other up and supporting each other. Thanks again! 🥰😎

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as an academic scientist, I cannot stress enough, that what you say is so true...sensible diet, not dieting just what you take in...dieting is set to fail, not one diet in the entire world has ever worked and will ever worked....active lifestyle...

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Amen! 🥰

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There seem to be body image and self-acceptance concerns among some women, due to societal brainwashing or family pressures and so forth, which cause those women completely unnecessary distress. Not that I am suggesting you are one of them of course. However, an instance comes to mind of a woman who pushed her teenage daughter who was not in the slightest bit overweight to have completely unnecessary bariatric surgery. (I had to edit this as autocorrect changed 'bariatric' to 'barbaric') Even when a female is slightly overweight it is not necessarily unhealthy.

Although too much body fat can lead to serious health issues subcutaneous fat in the hips, buttocks and thighs and backs of the arms can help protect women against brain inflammation and heart disease.

In women, higher body fat may protect against heart disease death, study shows

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/in-women-higher-body-fat-may-protect-against-heart-disease-death-study-shows

Does body fat protect females against heart disease?

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/does-body-fat-protect-females-against-heart-disease

Subcutaneous fat emerges as a protector of females' brains

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221213094755.htm#

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Let's face it, these scumbags are out to kill all!

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yes

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make money

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After 5 years and see the collusion between Health services, NIH, CDC, FDA, governments, Pharma, WHO and the WEF. I'm now and have been at the conclusion it partly is money but now moreover it's about population reduction directives per the WEF/UN agenda 2030/2050. These self-proclaimed scumbag elites have planned outright since 1968 Club of Rome, then transformed to WEF in 1971. You can go back to 1913 monster of Jekel Isle the Rockefellers, Rothschilds and other billionaires colluding firstly to enslave all societies worldwide with fiat currency and second to thieve all land and gold. Third was to remove countries sovereignty. 4th population reduction. The last 5 years have been supercharged in all these agendas or should I say these self-proclaimed elites have become the turbo cancers of modern population. Scumbags!

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Won’t need actual people to do jobs that AI can.

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Next you'll say, what's the point of people? Or animals or anything, may as well just have AI....which can live in an AI chip world. Satanic thinking

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Every time I see an Ozempic commercial or mention - which is a lot of times - I think hey, all y'all have to do is intermittent fasting. Free. Faster weight loss. Actually good for you. I would have thought that celebrities and such would think three or four times before risking the side effects. So as not to end up like Lisa Marie Presley, who mixed Ozempic and surgery.

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she did that? I did not know.

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My daughter who recently lost her fella to a multitude of cancers was taking Ozempic.

She was recently told there is a mass growing in the spot on her lung which was diagnosed as Castleman’s disease in 2006. The doctor did not remove the spot because of its location. On both lobes. Waiting for lab results.

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fingers crossed for her

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the research to show it is safe have NOT been done...alike COVID shots. this is a panacea...dangerous

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Thank you Dr Paul. I do understand this. I was very upset when found out she was taking the shots.

Many years ago in my early twenties (54yrs)I ended up in the hospital (for 12 days) with acute pancreatitis. Very painful. The only thing I was given for pain was shots with aspirin. In the front part of my thigh. Being only 21 years my legs were hard as rocks. Very painful. Never forgot that! So worried about my daughter.

Losing her soulmate 2 months ago, his family fighting her on his will & now, this! And, to add throw more wood on the fire my husband having AFib and not getting better ( this is awful), I’m becoming extremely bitter.

Sorry for rant.

Thank you for the info. Not good, but, thank you for your kindness…❤️

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Oh, I hope things work out well for your daughter! We are given such dangerous drugs now, it is frightening.

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Me too. Thank you.

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I was speaking to a young lady the other day and she had just spent time in hospital for complications following barbaric (bariatric) surgery. I was quite shocked because she was carrying a small amount of excess weight but I would not have considered her obese althouugh there might have been a body image and self-esteem issue. Is a gastric sleeve or gastric bypass really better than a GLP-1 agonist?

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I always felt serious risks with all of these and it really is difficult and the decision is tough for life long implications. But we have no research, no evidence other than now accumulating adverse reports as to Ozempic. losing wright is one thing but what happens if you then die? it was developed for type 2 diabetes and still the evidence was not bullet proof as to safety and long term studies were absent. now because a side effect is weight loss it is being used as a weight loss drug without the proper research. thing is I was silent in the beginning but now the adverse effects are mounting.

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study seems to suggest it is. but it is observational and residual confounding etc. we know that nothing is better than if in our face clear evidence and at present, we see it works. we hear it...I am sure you have....yes, but at what costs? and again, real world evidence suggests it is harmful...in many. so who is willing to take the risk?

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very interesting study showing no different in risk 'among individuals with a diabetes duration of 10 years or less and without a prior history of CVD or congestive heart failure, BMS was associated with lower all-cause mortality compared with GLP-1RA treatment, over a median follow-up of 6.8 years. Weight reduction was identified as a mediating factor in this association. No difference between BMS and treatment with GLP-1RAs was observed in the risk of mortality among individuals with a longer duration of diabetes (>10 years), nor in the risk of MACEs among all patients.'

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the issue is if we set death aside, what are we talking about? adverse effects? and what would we find acceptable? we need the proper studies of duration to exclude harms of OZEMPIC et al....we dont have them...I know people reporting weight loss but at what cost>? do we as a society let people do what they want? I am for that. but the advertising and reports by Musk and Oparah et al. who have podium can lead to an abundance and if there are dangerous sequelae many could be harmed. should the FDA et al. not come out and make a statement?

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That evidence is interesting and you make very good points. The pharma reps are pushing this stuff big time. There are even doctors keen for free samples. Popular books like "The Ozempic Revolution" claim to discuss side effects, but do they, adequately? I haven't read any of them so I wouldn't know but from the reviews they seem to tout Ozempic etc as the new "wonder drugs." The same thing was done with heroin at one time. And the beneficiary is always Pharma, posing as benevolent.

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Show me even one COMPLETE independent drug study that does not carry with it a bevy of potentially disastrous side effects. What is even one drug that does not pose risks to the better health of your body. Aspirin...think again.

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https://www.medpagetoday.com/cardiology/prevention/114178

Look who’s taking it like crazy! Wow.

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Could we please see correspondence between those who take these pharmaceutical products and those who accepted the Covid injections? Any connection perhaps?

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