Blockbuster "Weight Loss" Drug Ozempic Now Linked To Paralysis

The pharmaceutical industry has been pushing several new “blockbuster” drugs that they say can help people lose weight fast, and like other treatments we’ve seen over the years, these promises come with a price. Patients are now reporting cases of stomach paralysis after taking drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, and there could be more reports on the way. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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The pharmaceutical industry has been pushing several new blockbuster drugs that they say can help people lose weight fast. And like other treatments we've seen over the years, these promises come with a price and that is death and really serious injury. Patients are now reporting cases of stomach paralysis over taking drugs like Ozempic. And there could be more reports on the way. We've been watching, our law firm's been watching this case pretty closely. The, you know, we handled the Fen-Phen case which is literally thousands of women died from this Fen-Phen drug. We handled the opioid case where tens of thousands of people died. And it all came down to one thing, just like we're seeing here, doctors are not telling these patients the dangers of this product. Saw it with, saw it with, just finished, I just basically have finished the opioid litigation. The last part of it's still in the works. But what we found there is doctors did not, they didn't stay up to speed with the literature. They got busy and they couldn't see that all this nonsense that they were told from the beginning was just a lie. Same thing here. Same thing with Fen-Phen. Every time I've seen it, it's because somebody's lied on clinical data, management has overlooked bad clinical data. They've done a computation, Farron, here it is. We're making $10 billion. If we kill this many people, it's only gonna cost us $2 billion. So we're $8 billion ahead. That is what we call the goul transition. The goul calculation. That's what's happening here, I promise you.

Yeah. And with BP it was the three little pigs, was the scenario they used. So what we've got here is Ozempic, Wegovy, massive report comes out saying these women are now reporting stomach paralysis. Several of them have been officially diagnosed. Some have not yet been. But what it does is these drugs that are originally, Ozempic specifically for diabetes, and it did well with diabetes. But then the company started noticing, well, wait a minute. These folks are losing weight. That's a good thing. Okay. Maybe instead of just a diabetes blockbuster, we may have ourselves a weight loss blockbuster. Weight loss drugs are the holy grail of the pharmaceutical industry. If you can make a medicine that can make people lose weight without killing them or hurting them, that's their holy grail.

If you go, people watching this show right now, if you go and you ask 10 women, are you taking Ozempic? If they tell you the truth, three of 'em are gonna be taking Ozempic. If they're trying to lose weight. It is just so ubiquitous. And what, look, doctors understand, doctors are, it's all about immediate result. Right. You're overweight. Okay. Mary, well, take Ozempic. Well, why don't you look into what the science is on this? It's bad science from the very beginning. You know, you've got this, it's called GLP-1. I think it is. It's a hormone that's in the body and what it does is it tells your body to slow down digestion because if you don't slow it down, you won't get the nutrients you need out of the food. Right. So what this does, what they've done is engineered their own manufactured hormone kind of result. And the difference is, when you took a look at it, it's a best thing I can tell you, this is very clear. They did a placebo test and then they did a test with people, they're clearly taking Ozempic and took 70 minutes for the digestion process to take place. It took four minutes for the regular digestion to take place.